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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Using windos is like being in an abusive relationship where your partner goes through your phone all day every day, you pay all the bills, you don't get to have sex or laugh, and you're reminded every day that you're paying too little and that there is so much more you should buy for your partner.

Just install Linux already. Yes, Linux has its problems too, but they are less and easier to fix than this turd

[–] [email protected] 238 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Alternative title: "Follow these 17 convoluted steps to stay in your abusive relationship longer."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well there are 3 options and they are all bad.

  1. pay to upgrade your PC (or for extended 10 support)
  2. stay on 10 and go without security updates
  3. jump through hoops to update to 11 unsupported

It’s almost like being on Windows is all bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

4th option....(Microsoft's favorite one) Buy a whole new computer compatible with windows 11. Vista style.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)
  1. Use another OS (I hear temple OS is even better then 11 these days)

I would vote for 2. myself, its not like the security updates have been deal breakers before (nothing is secure anyway).

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That workaround for your bi-yearly feature update on an unsupported PC is more complicated than installing Linux.
There, I said the bad word.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

*bites the tongue as hard as possible to not say The Thing*

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

Install Hackintosh MacOS

/s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Go ahead... you can whisper it to me

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Find God and switch to templeos. /s

Jk. Everyone knows Hannah Montana Linux is the next big thing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I started wetting the bed again when I was 11. It continued every few nights until I was 18.

Then it turns out I wasn't urinating at all. I was just raised in a very controlling home, which meant I had no idea what masturbation was.

It wasn't until I started having sex that I found out I had been having wet dreams for years, and getting made fun of for it by my dad.

Now my dad is in his 70s, and wonders why nobody will talk to him anymore. Newsflash asshole! You can't talk to mommy anymore! 103 is a great age to live to, but people aren't immortal.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Sir this is a Wendy's

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That poor x220 deserves a coreboot and a good OS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah libreboot is the right coreboot distro, but meh I felt like letting others decide. I personally have my x220 with libreboot and Guix system

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I wish Roblox would stop having their fight with Linux and I just convert my kids over.

They absolutely don't need Windows for anything but Roblox at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, "oh no, I guess we can't have Roblox anymore!"

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship.

Oh, now you've done it, you've pissed off the tankies.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dude, if I could get them to seize the means of production...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Any democracy can be replaced with a dictatorship with well placed CIA intervention.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (38 children)

ITT: People who talk about Linux (as if that was the subject) because they just can't accept that some people actually need or want to use Windows and might find articles like this one useful.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (19 children)

If you need Windows, don’t run it on hardware that doesn’t support Windows 11. If you need it, do it the right way, so you can count on it working.

Now, what do you do with your old hardware? There are plenty of good ideas in the comments here.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

It's so annoying to see in literally every thread about windows

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I mean, the real danger is they shove out an update that straight up breaks on your PC, as in won't boot even in safe mode because it does something with the TPM, and it'll be your own fault for deliberately circumventing the requirements.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely. They don't care what OS it runs as long as it runs all their shit.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (8 children)

As of 15 min ago, my dad has decided to install windows 11 on his 12 year old home pc. Oh boy.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

TFW you continue fucking around with Windows rather than learn Linux

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One thing doesn't exclude the other.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I ended up taking my unsupported computer and turned it into an Unraid server. Bought some refurb enterprise drives on eBay to get it set up, and now I have an awesome home media server/NAS.

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