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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by N-Krause »

gverrilla wrote: post #9

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc.

I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.

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Post by mschuster91 »

breve wrote: post #11
gverrilla wrote: post #9

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

You can buy extended security updates for Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...

In Europe it's free although you have to log in with a Microsoft account for... reasons.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by haunter »

gverrilla wrote: post #9

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

IoT LTSC is updated until 2032 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

I use it since 2021 on my gaming PC. Zero problems, it’s a trimmed down Win 10 with most of the bloatware removed

Win 11 has a similar trimmed down LTSC version

Just install it, MS doesn’t care about piracy

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by indigo945 »

baq wrote: post #7
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

Writer is awful too. It will randomly mess up formatting, especially in tables. Also in tables, it will insist to try and parse cell values like Calc would (breaking numbers and dates), even though Writer doesn't even provide a way to run calculations on those numbers anyway.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by LogicHound »

breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The 90% of games running on Linux does not say how well and what games. Sure I can play the Batman: Arkham Knight perfectly on Linux. However the game is a decade old now. Try playing some titles that came out this year and it going to be very variable, multiplayer titles are often a no go at all due to anti-cheat. You can argue to you are blue in the face about kernel level anti-cheat but at the end of the day if all your mates are playing X, you are just going to suck it up and play X.

There is enough issues running games on Linux that there are specific distros created for running games because everything from the kernel version, X/Wayland, Compositor and the pipewire version can affect immensely how well the game runs.

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