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Windows adoption is largely driven by corporations. Most corporates align on a common policy of migration to every second major Windows release following this pattern: Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 With Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows 11 skipped. Which is a shame as these same corporates who have fleets of Apple Mac computers normally migrate annually about 6-9 months after each major annua…
My gaming PC, which isn't that old (Skylake / GTX 1080) isn't compatible with Windows 11. It still works fine, but given that it will inevitably be out of date with something that requires Windows 11, and the current impossibility of buying reasonably priced GPUs, I bought an XBox instead. Microsoft gets my money anyway, I suppose, but all my real work is done on a Mac. It's funny how Microsoft is basically just a ga…
>which isn't that old (Skylake To be fair, Skylake is pretty old. 2015 was 7 years ago which is quite significant in consumer tech years.
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Me too. I’ve been reading comments like this since the Year of Linux first began. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3038d4/when_was_the_... Image my shock to find out Windows still has 87% market share. I’m still unhappy that they took my Sun workstation and gave me a Windows PC.
Brenda in accounting isn't going to run Ubuntu even with the cute animal names. Until that happens,there will be stacks upon stacks of windows optiplexes being sold every day. Also nobody misses sloaris. I'm going to chalk that remark up to a misfired punchline.
My gaming PC, which isn't that old (Skylake / GTX 1080) isn't compatible with Windows 11. It still works fine, but given that it will inevitably be out of date with something that requires Windows 11, and the current impossibility of buying reasonably priced GPUs, I bought an XBox instead. Microsoft gets my money anyway, I suppose, but all my real work is done on a Mac. It's funny how Microsoft is basically just a ga…
>which isn't that old (Skylake To be fair, Skylake is pretty old. 2015 was 7 years ago which is quite significant in consumer tech years.
The worst mistake was removing the ability to ungroup taskbar items! Opening more than one instance of an application is a terrible experience right now. The icons are often unresponsive, the indicator that something is open is literally just a tiny dot. Instead of addressing this I feel like Microsoft is just going to continue to add tabs to all their applications as justification for it. Edge, VS Code, Windows Term…
Some Windows 11 GUI customization tools: Start All Back https://www.startallback.com Explorer Patcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher Open Shell https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
I do find it unacceptable that an OS needs 3rd party customization expose options to make the interface usable.
If I wanted that experience I'd just buy a Mac.
I know people who still use Windows 7 and hate 10. It gets the job done, and modern browsers still run on it because there were no serious API changes between 7 and 10.
They won’t to arm twist people off Win10 to 11 and force you to buy a new PC. No. This is why we have choices and Linux Mint.
last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
Before installing windows disconnect from the Internet. Otherwise it forces you to use a Microsoft Account.