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Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Basically my plan until I can scrounge enough money up for a new computer. My current one literally won’t let me upgrade due to some component/driver it lacks.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’ll let you upgrade to Linux. It doesn’t play those stupid games with you like MS does.

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beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Definitely you should look into Linux, it’s really gotten quite good. Especially if you don’t need games with anti cheat.

But if you just want to use Windows 11, it’s super duper easy. Just Google “download Windows 11 iso” and grab the iso file from Microsoft website.

Then download Rufus.

Then pop in a thumb drive that’s at least 8gb. Open Rufus, select your thumb drive and the iso, then choose the option to remove windows requirements, then click start.

Backup your files on Windows 10, save them somewhere. Then pop in the thumb drive and install windows 11 fresh.

The requirements aren’t actually required. Win 11 runs fine on all sorts of hardware. Support stops at 8th Gen Intel, but I’ve installed it on 5th Gen. My work laptop is 2nd or 3rd Gen. It’s fine 🤷‍♂️

Technically less secure? Yeah, in some ways. But it’s miles ahead of running unpatched windows 10 after September.

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- justsquigglez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh shit this is actually really helpful, I might end up doing the Rufus USB route when I get my stuff back up and running (apartment flooded and I have to wait until the finish fixing my ceiling before I can plug everything back up.)
  
  Thanks for the in-depth info!
  
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- murd0x@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What comes after fresh install? Massgrave ?
  
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tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You can pay to keep getting windows security updates and prolong the upgrade even further.

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- wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  “you can pay us, and we won’t break your legs for a while longer” -ms
  
  W10 IoT is a thing, and will get updates for a few more years, no mafia shakedown required.
  
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KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
For some of the hardware requirements, there are edits you can make to get it to install, but you do have to also force it every time there is a major release, minor updates go through fine.

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