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Games and especially modding. I'm holding on to 10 until I can't. Then i'll figure out Linux.
tip: Windows 10 21h2 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032
Honestly Windows 11 isn't terrible. It is mostly the same as Windows 10 except more demanding for seemingly no reason.
I've tried it a couple times and I hate it. The UI sucks, I can't find shit, and they've stripped back control panel even further. Tried to help my mother with virtual disc's and you can't simply mount them anymore, instead there was some strange 3rd-party tool I'd never heard of and it didn't even export files that were too deep in the folder tree. Fucking useless.
All the bloatware sucks, search defaulting to AI and Bing instead of your own computer sucks. Removing administrative controls sucks.
But I'm a visual designer and the market needs powerful industry-ready software like Adobe and Affinity. I can't design publishing in fucking GIMP. The Linux alternatives aren't enough. I'm considering using a Linux home machine with Mac for work but the apps I own already are Microsoft so it would be very expensive to switch. So I'll probably end up using W11 and just complain the whole time.
Coming from windows 10, last year I tested installing linux mint which is one of the most accessible distros. I found that around a third of the stuff I had running perfectly under Win10 didn't work. I didn't find alternatives that were good enough either...
So I said fuck it and did a clean windows 11 install, It's been a month now and I can really say that it's way easier to upgrade to windows 11 and turn off all the shit, than to deal with all the stuff that won't run under linux.
Hopefully this changes in a few more years...
Yeah, no, that shit ain't turned off, and if it is, Windows will just keep turning it back on.
people have claimed over the years this happens, but I've never had this happen with windows 10
there are no settings for all the shit, just some of it, that Microsoft is permitting to switch off. you therefore just have a half-still-shit-on system. that's totally fine, i don't expect anyone to invest time into anything. we ain't got much to start with. but no one using windows is really in control
I jumped ship from windows 10 to Linux on August and it's been smooth I have found alternatives for everything, but to be fair I used a lot of foss already on Windows 10.
Started with Debian but although I love it for my homelab I didn't like it being behind on KDE release so I switched to endeavourOS and I just love it.