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Post by sexy_seedbox »

devsda wrote: post #195
flacebo wrote: post #145

Little bit off topic, sorry. Windows 10 support ending in 2025 is really scary. Literally billions of computers are not eligible to install Windows 11 because of artificial limitations, all of these are supposed to be trashed? That would be an enormous amount of e-waste. Realistically one or a combination of the following will happen: - Microsoft extends the deadline - There will be a paid long term support update ch…

May be and just may be, those users will then try some linux distros and realize that it's not so bad and stick with it. Hope that will drive linux adoption a little more.

2025 will surely be the year of desktop Linux.

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Post by talldayo »

paulmd wrote: post #236
bee_rider wrote: post #134

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I don’t think I could use a MacBook, I enjoy tinkering with my computer too much. I loathe cellphones, though, so I have an iPhone. It is fine. It belongs to Apple really. Someday maybe it will be easy enough to put together something like a Raspberry Pi cellphone. But, for now, I’ll just rent one from Apple and let them handle everything. They make fine devices for people who don’t like that type of device. No wonde…

i mean, macos is just unix, and you will do a lot of tinkering given how many bad defaults it's got, and how many weird foibles etc. I have a script which fixes all my file assignments after a brew upgrade because macos grabs them back when the old application is uninstalled, for example, plus about five third-party apps living in my toolbar (plus bartender to manage them all etc). idk why people think macos is super…

> the reason the AI revolution is happening on Apple second

...is because Apple goes out of their way to arbitrarily disable your ability to run Nvidia drivers?

So much for "not locked down" I guess. But at least they still lets you install apps for free, it's nothing like the phones. How generous.

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Post by philistine »

karmakaze wrote: post #192
philistine wrote: post #164

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It’s for these weird edge cases that I love macOS’ new Startup Items menu. It includes a list of everything that starts at boot, and everything running in the background that’s not the OS or Apple. I had been waiting for a feature like that all my life. Sure, put a weird little service hidden somewhere as a login item, but tell me so. I can now turn off Microsoft’s license validator !

The thing on the later macOS that opens so slowly is System Preferences. So annoying, and also how it always starts at Appearance (as if that's the most important) when I usually want the last thing I had opened before.

Look, the new Settings app is far from perfect, but one can like a new feature it has with reservations about its rewrite.

Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

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Post by rldjbpin »

utensil4778 wrote: post #201

My husband is a normal layperson who treats his computer like an appliance. It's just there to do word processing and web browsing. He's been asking me to buy him a new laptop and specifically wants Windows on it. I've been struggling for weeks trying to explain to him why Windows is bad and why I don't want to setup and manage his spyware machine. I've convinced him to at least try a few Linux distros to see what he…

can't force someone to do a certain thing, especially if they have little to gain from their perspective.

having made my parents switch to ubuntu (please hold your pitchforks, this was a decade ago), they always fell back to windows when things got tough.

Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

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Post by idk1 »

mrweasel wrote: post #14

Other than being able to gobble up user data and being able to associate it with a person (or at least an email address) and later sell that information, what is Microsoft reasoning for refusing local accounts? This whole obsession with forcing users to create a Microsoft account is really weird. It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft accoun…

What I like about the apple way of doing it is you can toggle on and off every single feature of having an account. So every app and every featyre has been designed to exist in both states, working locally and working with icloud. Remindered for example, are local or on your account. Toggle for every feature. I have photos and password sync turned off on my mac, I never use them.

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Post by erremerre »

Retric wrote: post #221
bishbosh wrote: post #218

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This conversation is perpetually marred by this sort of flippant response. No one expects MacOS to work on anything but Apple hardware, but they do expect a random chip on the motherboard they've been using for a several years to work. Proposing they google every chip on their motherboard to see if they can run linux is a failure of linux. I would hope that you consider that dismissive replies like this do little to…

> random chip on the motherboard they've been using for a several years to work. You can easily check if the motherboard has issues, but this idea you should install on random hardware is a mistake. Linux is not MacOS, but the best time to swap is when you get new hardware. Run into issues and the old Desktop/Laptop still works and there is no need to stress.

I completely agree with bishbosh.

However, can I know what is that easy way to check if every single chip of a motherboard will be compatible with linux?

I am honestly asking, because I have not found anything to check hardware.

the same way, if I want to make a computer formed with parts from a store, (not a prebuilt) how can I check all pieces to make sure that it will be compatible?

Thank you.

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Post by erremerre »

bishbosh wrote: post #223
Retric wrote: post #221

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> random chip on the motherboard they've been using for a several years to work. You can easily check if the motherboard has issues, but this idea you should install on random hardware is a mistake. Linux is not MacOS, but the best time to swap is when you get new hardware. Run into issues and the old Desktop/Laptop still works and there is no need to stress.

>this idea you should install on random hardware is a mistake. Why, it works on windows? And it's not 'random hardware' its the hardware they have and use. You should realize this is a failure of linux, not of the user.

Then when you say, that Linux is not yet prepared for desktop, they will mention that they have been using linux for years and it is ready.

Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

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Post by haunter »

raydev wrote: post #248
haunter wrote: post #127

Windows 11 LTSC just came out last week and no online account needed (also no crapware, no TPM, no Secure Boot etc.)

Any downsides? In particular, will games work? Visual Studio?

There really isn’t any downsides. No feature updates? So if something fancy comes out LTSC doesn't get that just much later (and even then almost everything is removed).

The only thing I can imagine if there is some bleeding edge hardware feature that needs the newest Windows version because of drivers, API etc. and that won't work.

Windows 10 LTSC only got four feature updates, most of the time years apart so most likely that will be the case with 11 LTSC too https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/ove...

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