Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. Most things still run on it, and that baby’s got no user-facing slop and five more years of support in it. Mass Grave dot dev.
Or you could just install linux.
+1 massgrave. Got the extended support for my regular W10 pro. After that, it’s going to be debian if - fingers crossed - nothing breaks. It’s a 6700K build.
Damn, that never happens on my Arch Linux install.
I dual boot windows because of a few things that don’t matter too much to me, and i haven’t really figured out wine as much as i should. Anyway, i booted up windows again after like 5 months. I hated every second of it, but overall, nothing of note happened. The next day, i had to boot windows again, and when i shut it down, it gave me the option to update and reboot or update and shut down, nothing else. I should’ve just unplugged my pc, but I updated and shut it down and left my room. When i came back a few hours later, my pc was stuck in a reboot loop and i couldn’t really boot anything. Just fuck everything about windows.
Poser! A real Roman would just fall on his sword.
More like a downgrade
ZorinOS is nice to Windows users if you want ui similarly
So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you’re used to Linux.
Thank god it requires enabling something my BIOS has disabled by default and I don’t need it for anything, otherwise my install of 10 would have already been turned into 11 on its own.
I’m deeply sorry. If it’s any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.
Or at least everybody that didn’t see the light and adopt The Penguin… But let’s leave religion to another time.
False. My machine officially isn’t upgradeable to W11 cause it’s too old. Also, it’s possible that LTSC doesn’t even suggest to upgrade.
Isn’t ltsc frozen in features with only security updates or something?
Yeah, that’s what I meant with my second sentence, I’m just not 100% sure there’s no upgrade path.
BTW, Arch is awesome.
( actually, i use Manjaro. but it’s based on arch. so that still counts, right?)
manjaro has had a lot of drama and problems in the past and i don’t think it’s really a good distro to use. they forgot to renew their ssl certificate multiple times, they break software due to their weird update strategy (they use custom repos which hold back updates mostly arbitrarily for a week) which breaks dependencies and sometimes breaks the entire system, and their gui package manager once overwhelmed the AUR with traffic.
a better alternative with an easy gui installer would be endeavouros or cachyos. endeavour is basically manjaro except competent and with regular arch packages. cachy has its own repos (in order to build specialized versions of packages), but it keeps in sync with the regular arch repos.
though of course if manjaro is working for you that’s great and any amount of linux use is good. manjaro is just a bit temperamental. i also understand that some people can’t just distrohop, for example because they don’t have a separate home partition, or not enough space to copy important files elsewhere before wiping their partitions.
No, it doesn’t count. You only get BTW privileges after installing Arch at least once.
so that still counts, right?
Still counts. You now have to say you use arch every hour, otherwise you’ll implode.
Wait…does this apply to all Arch based distros? If so I haven’t been talking about it nearly enough.
And if you own a Steam Deck, you’re an Arch user. I don’t make the rules.
please don’t go any further without mentioning you use arch, it can be dangerous!!!
I noticed this while I was using arch, btw.
Well I do use Arch
and you look marvelous! btw
NGL kinda want to use arch just so I can say I use it. I feel left out.
I used to use Arch like them, then I took an arrow to the knee.
Don’t leave us hanging. What distro?
Hannah Montana
Half a dozen of them have real cost/benefits trade-offs that make preaching for a single one harmful. The other thousand are just completely useless waste of time not worth mentioning.
BSD BSD BSD. read that in a chant of course.
That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.
