kirk781 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoWhat I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down17
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minus-squareminimalfootprintlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up165arrow-down11·11 hours agoAlternative title: “Follow these 17 convoluted steps to stay in your abusive relationship longer.”
minus-squaredoctortran@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 hour agoAnd feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·57 minutes agoWell there are 3 options and they are all bad. pay to upgrade your PC (or for extended 10 support) stay on 10 and go without security updates jump through hoops to update to 11 unsupported It’s almost like being on Windows is all bad.
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·48 minutes ago Use another OS (I hear temple OS is even better then 11 these days) I would vote for 2. myself, its not like the security updates have been deal breakers before (nothing is secure anyway).
minus-squaredoctortran@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·35 minutes agoYou’re about to get ripped to shreds for daring to suggest the odds of anything actually happening to someone on a recently discontinued operating system are not dramatically higher as long as the user has basic use cases and basic tech literacy.
Alternative title: “Follow these 17 convoluted steps to stay in your abusive relationship longer.”
And feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.
Well there are 3 options and they are all bad.
It’s almost like being on Windows is all bad.
I would vote for 2. myself, its not like the security updates have been deal breakers before (nothing is secure anyway).
You’re about to get ripped to shreds for daring to suggest the odds of anything actually happening to someone on a recently discontinued operating system are not dramatically higher as long as the user has basic use cases and basic tech literacy.