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What will you do once windows 10 is deprecated and you have to update to windows 11 or 12? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Windows 11 keeps trying to install different stuff, notifying you about how great edge is, requires new hardware, and more. Windows 12 is rumored to be cloud only with a subscription?

What will do you?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am running Win11(pro) because the new Intel CPUs require it.

It's completely fine. I use Firefox without edge annoying me. There are no apps that just pop up out of nowhere (that I know of). It's fine. I locked down all the temeletry shit like I did on Win10.

The only thing annoying me is the change in the preview in folder icons. I wanna see the pictures that are in the folder not the. xmp files Darktable creates.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. If you're used to working with windows, 11 is the usual song and dance of disabling a bunch of telemetry shit and making sure windows update only runs when prompted.

I don't even bother to do the latter on my windows machine since it's my gaming rig and that doesn't stay on unless I game (my server runs Debian), so there's plenty of chances for it to install updates when rebooting.

Sure, sometimes it adds some half baked garbage "feature" like the weather widget and you gotta kill it, but that's hardly an issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I think it's silly the amount of work it takes to initially learn how to properly debloat, install, and configure Windows nicely but once you've learned it it's not tough to do. It's only time consuming at worst, even with changes to an entirely new version. Even with Linux Distros there's a certain amount of time you need to set aside to set up stuff how you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am running Win11(pro) because the new Intel CPUs require it.

Say what? Why does it require it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IIRC it has something to do with the process scheduling in 10 and lower that is not discerning between efficiency and performance cores

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Win10 can't properly handle the efficency cores. So it's either upgrade to Win11 or disable the cores. (Or play with terrible random stutters)