The main problem is that Win11 can only run in special hardware and Microsoft can pry out my potato computer from my cold, dead hands. I won't change my hardware to update my OS.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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Do it the other way, change your OS! Embrace the pinguin!
Man, it's a toss up for me as to which I hate more: Microsoft threatening and badgering me toward W11 (and by extension, a new computer) or Linux fanboys evangelizing for their preferred system.
Both are complete non-starters for me. I'm not buying a new machine while my current one does everything I need just fine... And after a few years of using Linux on my laptop back in college, I have no desire to set foot in that environment again either.
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The beating will continue until morale increases. - Microsoft PR
When you "have" to keep making new versions to satisfy market "demand" in the "free" market.
Well, Microsoft said way back when that "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows" so a lot of enterprise went to it. To this day I'm dealing with vendors that have a certified "Windows 10-only" solution. Another funny one is stuff like Ford's FDRS software still only officially supports Windows 10 Pro.
Platform changes and all that are fine, but when Microsoft says basically "This is gonna be your LTS forever" and then bails on it, shit like this is no surprise at all.
I'll admit to some 'asterisk' to that.
So a developer evangelist said "because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10". So the media ran with the most intuitive interpretation of that language and expanded on it and declared that Microsoft was basically changing to a rolling release model. Note that folks say "he meant latest, not last".
Meanwhile, Microsoft's formal lifecycle statement said, from the onset, that it wasn't going to be supported in 10 years.
However, Microsoft did nothing to clarify the rampant coverage. So I'm still on the side of "the popular impression among people was eternally supported rolling release". Just acknowledging that, formally, they did designate 10 the same way they had designated previous versions.
I agree with you fully, and that's my main point. Their own forums were full of the question being repeatedly asked and dismissed, granted by "MVP's" or independent advisors who have no link to the internal development or plans, they should have stepped up their messaging. The enterprise I work for pays them a fuckton of money, and we even have our own dedicated account reps who sang the same tune those fuckers on the forums did, and they were legit Microsoft employees. When W10's EOL was announced they sent over a lot of gift baskets to our VP's over that shit, because we knew how many mission critical systems we had that just got fucked in the ass, and our budgetary outlays just changed.
Complete fucking asshole move, and it could've been much better if the messaging were just handled differently.
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I've been apprehensive to all kinds of adverts for years, I guess the general population is catching up to me on this trend.
I wonder if the stats will rise considerably during 2025 with all the business and enterprise environment switching after delaying the upgrade for a few years. We certainly have to do that at work.
Wellp..... This morning I was ready to go to work and have a few meetings but thanks to windows 11 inconvenient update service now I can just come here to complain.
The moment I can verify a solution for my music production workflow on Linux, I know that I'm out as well.
I don't know what you're currently accustomed to or what the feature/workflow differences would be, but I've had some music folks I know be successful with Ardour and Reaper. Have you checked to see if those would let you do your thing? The other problem I've had is audio interface support in Linux, but that seems to have improved a lot. I've got an old Axe I/O Solo that didn't work at all a few years ago but now seems to have full support.
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