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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by d3Xt3r »

AyanamiKaine wrote: post #142
vunderba wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, and if you can switch, it’s highly recommended. I have some pretty bespoke old RS-232 Windows software that was an absolute disaster to get working under Debian with Wine a few years back, so I (and others) might still need to keep a copy of Windows around.

Unironically, I had the most success with old windows programs not when using wine directly but using proton with steam. I personally use umu[1] to use proton without directly needing to run steam. I wrote a small KDE script for .exe files so I can just double click them and they run lol. Or for setups I can right click them and just install them as a setup and it automatically creates a app shortcut I can open. [1]…

Got a link to the script?

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by nairboon »

SirMaster wrote: post #82
Filligree wrote: post #62

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Great for the americans. What are the rest of us going to do?

Maybe get your governments and citizens to innovate and create their own instead of relying so heavily on other countries. I thought that's the direction other countries were trying to go.

Good thing that the US frontier labs only download data from the US internet created by US citizens /s

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by LtWorf »

hypfer wrote: post #126
vunderba wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, and if you can switch, it’s highly recommended. I have some pretty bespoke old RS-232 Windows software that was an absolute disaster to get working under Debian with Wine a few years back, so I (and others) might still need to keep a copy of Windows around.

At this point, you might want to consider throwing an LLM at it and just letting it reimplement the thing so that it runs on linux. They can actually do that. They may not like it, but they can.

Reverse engineer a binary proprietary database format? I have some doubts.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by hypfer »

Grombobulous wrote: post #158
hypfer wrote: post #151

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So you're saying the cutting edge HDR features(?) in windows 11 are not all that important to you personally and thus do not warrant windows 11 usage? Makes sense, yeah. Nice talking to you.

Not sure why you’re being so bitter toward me in particular. I don’t personally own a monitor capable of HDR but if I had one I would prioritize it a little more, and in my case, I migrated to Linux to resolve specific graphics driver problems. Getting my games to work at all was more important than HDR. I also recognize that laptops are generally more popular than desktops and OLED is far more common in that form fa…

I'm just greatly annoyed that a conversation that could've been about understanding and learning was (at least attempted to be) hijacked/derailed by some ego/identity stuff.

Letting people get away with that has led to the unpleasant state of the internet we have now and mild correction simply doesn't work.

Hence I've pointed at the exact holes/fault lines. Nothing personal. I wish you a lot of fun gaming on linux.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by [deleted] »

mrguyorama wrote: post #149
Grombobulous wrote: post #122

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Very untrue for gaming in particular. For example, if you have an OLED or mini-LED monitor, you really don’t want to be on Windows 10 and miss out on HDR. And sure, you can say “well nobody has an OLED monitor,” but I’d remind everyone that OLED displays have been pretty much standard on every gaming laptop mid-range and higher for a decent amount of time now. A lot of the focus for Windows 11 development has been ga…

>you really don’t want to be on Windows 10 and miss out on HDR My HDR monitor is connected to my Windows 10 machine and the HDR switch in settings is on and my monitor reports it is getting HDR What am I supposedly missing?

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Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by 1kurac »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #41
vunderba wrote: post #3

Anyone who still needs to run Windows 10 for whatever reason should switch over to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (version 21H2) which will continue to receive security updates up through 2032. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...

Linux is free and less wasteful on resources on the other hand.

I don't know... laptop-mode and all, my battery runs out pretty quickly.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by mawadev »

lazide wrote: post #30
senfiaj wrote: post #22

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>> Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. For me a bigger concern is that Windows 11 requires MS account, and making harder and harder to bypass it. This is a disrespect for my freedom and privacy. The hardware is not the biggest issue because it might catch up eventually. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-...

Also the constant turning on despite my prior explicitly disabling of spyware (memory ‘live sampling’ to the cloud for ‘virus protection’, one drive ‘auto backup’), and features I’ve explicitly disabled like copilot. It’s creepy as fuck, and for no real benefit to me that I can tell.

I left 2 licenses of copilot in my car, someone broke into my car and left 4 copilot licenses there. The world is a dangerous place honestly, you cannot be protected enough..

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by hypfer »

LtWorf wrote: post #163
hypfer wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point, you might want to consider throwing an LLM at it and just letting it reimplement the thing so that it runs on linux. They can actually do that. They may not like it, but they can.

Reverse engineer a binary proprietary database format? I have some doubts.

Why?

Certainly not unattended, but no AI should ever be unattended.

But if you closely guide it, support it with tools like Ghidra and force force force force force a process with many sanity checks and quintuple-checks, it's possible.

What previously needed a whole team and months might be one guy, a lot of tokens and 1-3 weeks. Doable, fun, and interesting.

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Judging by the downvotes, I guess people mistook the initial comment for HN VC fueled AI delusions and I can't blame them for that. That's not what it was tho.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by ptero »

1kurac wrote: post #166
giancarlostoro wrote: post #41

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Linux is free and less wasteful on resources on the other hand.

I don't know... laptop-mode and all, my battery runs out pretty quickly.

This. Linux is my primary OS for both work and home, but I have a Mac laptop for travel as the battery life of any Linux laptop I tried is very bad. And this includes a modern System 76, supposedly Linux-friendly with drivers, which drains the battery on fairly light workloads in about 2 hours. My 2c.
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