If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ‘junk’ - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you’re still using Windows 10 and don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1381·
    1 year ago

    I mean, it won’t let me. Windows Update inists my PC doesn’t meet the minimum spec, and I’m not inclined to argue with it.

    • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      194·
      1 year ago

      You can use Rufus to install windows 11 and bypass the requirements. It does everything for you – downloads the latest win 11 service pack, removes the blocking requirements, and you can even tell it to automatically disable all of the telemetry and phoning home. You’ll still need a license key when you install, of course. But I’m running win 11 on an 8 year old PC with zero issues.

      Here is a good guide that explains in detail.

      • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        162·
        1 year ago

        I would like to point out that this is exactly the same difficulty of just installing linux, without freeing you from microserfdom.

        • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          The problem for me is that I basically only use my PC for gaming and YouTube.

          I know SOME games work, but I don’t want to add to the list of games I can’t play because they’re console/windows only. :/

          • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I have the exact same use case for my PC and have no issues gaming on Linux for the vast majority of games. The caveat, however, is that anti-cheat can be problematic, so if you exclusively play games with anti-cheat that could be a problem for you. The only titles I have issues with are competitive shooters.

          • Hexarei@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            We’ve long since transitioned into the “most” games work territory. Basically apart from anything with rootkit-like anti cheat, you shouldn’t have any trouble playing games at all.

        • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Comparing the level of effort to run windows vs Linux is a whole other thing I’m definitely not getting into. I use Linux for work and run it on two machines at home, but I also use my Windows box for games. You can use and enjoy both, it doesn’t have to be a religious war.

          • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I highly recommend you attempt to run your games on a Linux box, as the experience has improved vastly. I also keep a Windows install around for the odd game that doesn’t work in Linux (basically just a couple competitive shooters that I enjoy), but the number of times I need to boot into my Windows partition are diminishing day by day. Definitely did not mean to be a zealot about it, but going through the effort outlined above just so you can get Windows updates from a company that clearly doesn’t care if they trash your machine forcing your upgrade seems foolish to me.