Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months agoWindows 11, while you can work around it, specifically requests tom, which definitively is not from 1999…
Also, windows has its own endless list of driver issues, hardware does not always “just work” on windows, on the other hand, it also often “just works” on linux. It depends, of course, but I never had to install a sketchy driver for my PS3 controller on linux (it’s in the kernel), but I had to on windows. Not to mention printers.
A bunch of software is also only, though that depends of course on your field and what you need. I’ve seen plenty of software that I needed that did not have a proper (or as good) windows alternative.
Ps3 controllers literally just work on Windows without any sketchy drivers. Same with ps4 and ps5.
Printers literally just work. I bought a Brother, and windows 11 automatically found it.
Sounds like you should be up to date before commenting.
I would love to know which software is Linux only.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I mean, TPM 2.0 is already 5 years old so were not really talking about MS requiring cutting-edge tech when they stop supporting Win10 in two years.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
My computer parts were like 8 years old when I replaced them.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
But getting a 6 year old used laptop by the time its necessary is fortunately pretty cheap. And for consumers there’s honestly very few that need to use windows, so there’s always Linux distros as an alternative.
I get that it’s not a good move for consumers, I’m not disagreeing with that. But it’s just also so very far from the catastrophe that so many seem to insist it is. It’s honestly a mild inconvenience, and the coverage it’s getting is IMO completely out of proportion to the problem.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
It’s more that windows constantly has all of these little things that build up to something big. For some it’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back.