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I was thinking the same thing myself - Windows 11 needs 10x more powerful hardware than, say, Win XP, but doesn't noticeably provide any new features. Where's all the processing power going?
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HN will never let facts stand in the way of good FUD.
It's Snarkiness, not FUD. Neither fear, uncertainty nor doubt involved here. And I think everyone knew from context that the claim was strongly tongue in cheek.
Making confident but incorrect statements is not snarkyness. That's like me saying climate change isn't happening.
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> " Also, security, as we see every day, is all about backend infrastructure, like telcos not getting hax0red, amirite, and not about home users. After all, in my three decades of computing, 100% of harm to my "computing estate" came from companies being lax with their data in their "clouds", not from any movie-like hax0rology on my local systems. " Does the author not remember the days when connecting an unpatched W…
> And that Microsoft fixed it? By becoming itself spyware. And fixed it... Croudstrike, updates who won't install, ransomware, it even clicks on your links.
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Either use W10 IoT LTSC or switch to another OS entirely, it's not like w12 will fix it, so you might as well face the inevitable today
I'm glad Dell Refurbished only sells workstations with Windows 10 Pro. It's not a pleasant experience but still way better than Windows 11. I wish they had Windows LTSC though.
I'll be pirating a copy of LTSC when MS stops security updates to 10 Pro.
Wild to me that a company can work on a product for twenty years, have multiple releases, and not have made any significant improvements to it beyond updated hardware support. Like, y'all could just do a 25th Anniversary Edition of Windows 2000 and people would go ape shit for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10 ???
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Arguably, especially in the 8/10/11 era, few of these features are things that meaningfully enhance the user experience. Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks. In the 8 era, a huge number of massive projects were started, promoted, and mothballed.
>Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks. It's the painful cost of maintaining backwards compatibility. For context, I can still install and use Winamp 2.5 from 1999 on Windows 11. That's over 25 years of backwards compatibility. Not something most people need on a daily basis but still very cool.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10 ???
> Windows 10 reintroduced the start menu A great feature. They dumbed it down though. > Unlike in previous versions of Windows NT, the Win32 console windows can now be resized without any restrictions. Truly a great achievement. It took MS 2 decades. > It can be made to cover the full screen by pressing the Alt+↵ Enter combination on keyboard. Maybe i'm too old, but this was always working. And the cherry on the cake…
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I'll be pirating a copy of LTSC when MS stops security updates to 10 Pro.
you can get keys from a reseller quite cheap
And that's when they're not just "pirated" themselves?
Seems at that point you might as well just skip paying whatever questionable middleman in involved if you're not concerned about abiding by TOS or license.