In this video, I reveal why Microsoft ended Windows 10 support in October 2025? The answer is simple: they want to rob you of your digital sovereignty. They won't be happy until each and every one ...

In this video, I reveal why Microsoft ended Windows 10 support in October 2025? The answer is simple: they want to rob you of your digital sovereignty. They won’t be happy until each and every one …

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    The main reasons Microsoft and forcing Windows 11 on people are;

    • Recoup sunk costs on CoPilot by training on User Data.
    • Monetising users by data mining through onselling mined data.
    • Forcing customer lock-in through forced use of CoPilot.

    Will someone please pop this AI-bubble so CoPilot, Apple Intelligence and Gemini can just go away!? We don’t want any of it!

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    151·
    5 days ago

    I was happy using Windows 7.

    I begrudgingly moved to win 10 right around 7s EOL and was never happy with it; but it was promised to be the ‘final’ version of Windows.

    I kept fighting with it to, for example, not use Edge. Manually removed the files at least three times only to have Windows Update keep re-installing it and changing it back to the default. Plus there are features hard-coded to use it, like the weather widget on the taskbar.

    Now we’ve got the same “you’re going to have it no matter how many times you say no” rapist attitude with AI features.

    Roughly 3 years ago now, I purged Windows from my systems and run Debian instead. It’s so nice actually having control over my own computer again.

    Fuck Microsoft.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    I still have Win10 on a laptop just to drive a scanner that has no Linux drivers.

    My media server and main box both run Linux Mint. I switched a year and a half ago, and love it. I’m not much of a gamer, but so far, I’ve played FO4, Portal, and Bioshock and a few other games with no problems. I use ModOrganizer 2 to mod FO4 and it works fine.

    I’m a stupid old man, I made the switch, and you can too.

  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    I think I’m booking a few days off to figure this out. I’m a little scared (my computer hooks into my receiver, shares monitors with my work comp, has mouse and keyboard running through a switch to toggle them between work/fun computer all of which seems like it’ll require some fighting with/praying for linux drivers) but if it all goes wrong, I have a work computer and an old windows laptop for media etc. I figure, worst case scenario, I give up and install windows 11. But might as well try to fight the good fight…

  • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    I wanted to, but modern games seem out of the question for me with my RTX 3080. The Nvidia drivers just aren’t there yet. I’m likely going to just tolerate Windows 11 until my next build, and make a point to get an AMD GPU next time.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      61·
      5 days ago

      Why? The Nvidia drivers work fine for modern games.

      There is a problem with LTS distros like Ubuntu and Mint etc. that don’t have fully up to date Linux kernels and thus can’t provide the latest Nvida drivers, but on more regularly updated distributions like Fedora I never had any issues with running games on Nvidia.

      That said, AMD GPUs generally work nicer on Linux, but having a Nvidia card shouldn’t hold you back from upgrading to Linux.

      • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        The performance hit in my testing was fairly signficant. I saw improvements with different versions of Proton, but ultimately I was looking at a 5-20% reduction in performance vs my testing in Windows 11 when playing more demanding titles. There were also frustrating anomalies where games would randomly refuse to start or would crash. Yes, you can certainly use an Nvidia GPU and get decent performance out of older titles, but there are still some fairly significant concessions that need to be addressed. This is well documented among the community.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          21·
          5 days ago

          So you get 100 instead of 120 fps? Seems fairly irrelevant to me 🤷

          Anyways, if that is the level of difference we are talking about, then you will not fare much better with an AMD gpu.

          • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            Except when I push a game and target 60 FPS, while dealing with stuttering and really bad frame times that I can’t reproduce in Windows.

    • the_q@lemmy.zip
      4·
      5 days ago

      Try Pop! OS with their Nvidia iso. It’s simple and works well out of the box. You should be able to have a great experience with your 3080 on Linux.

      • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I’ve tried PopOs, CachyOS, and Bazzite. All three yielded similar results. I didn’t find the performance to be satisfactory unfortunately.

          • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            All of the above. Tried different GPU driver builds, tried Proton-GE, tried scaling back visuals to low… Tested games like Cyberpunk and Oblivion remastered. Not sure if there’s something I’m missing?

            • the_q@lemmy.zip
              2·
              5 days ago

              What’s your system specs besides your GPU? Resolution you play at? Memory speed?