Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.
Looking into switching to Linux…
Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10
Submitted 3 weeks ago by faizalr@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.world
https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-is-being-sued-over-sunsetting-windows-10
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Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
May you run into a nerd with a Ventoy USB full of beginner-friendly distros in their back pocket to help you along your journey.
There are at least two of us out there, I’m sure of it.
seralth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I keep a ventoy USB in my backpack at all times.
Currently I have mint popos endeavour cachy bazzite fedora opensuse. I’m thinking of adding a few more. Maybe add nixOS and Debian to the mix.
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Bought an iodd a few months ago to do my part 🫡
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I keep a keychain in my backpack for jusr such an ocassion!
funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do it.
If you have an old laptop, put Linux on it, get comfortable using it. Then when you are ready, make the full switch on your main computer.
I have used Linux for a few years mostly on my servers, but that’s what I did to get used to the desktop experience. I setup a second SSD to have the option of dual booting if I needed it. That was back in March and I haven’t booted into Windows once.
cor315@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I tried. Turns out my fingerprint reader isn’t supported on Linux and never will be and my audio sounded like absolute trash. I probably could have have fixed the audio issue but the fingerprint thing turned me off. Went back to Windows 11 which works just fine for me.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If not, look around, you can buy off-lease corporate laptops and ultra-small desktops that are just old enough to not support 11 for a song. They lack a GPU for good gaming, but they tend to be extremely well supported on Linux and are not slow. For the price of a Windows license, you can have something to learn on without effecting your main computer.
themadcodger@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Seconded on do it. It's a lot better than it was even a few years ago.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As someone who recently made the switch, DM me of there’s anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don’t have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m in the process of switching myself. Threw Ubuntu Studio on my laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra) and I’m currently testing for audio and music production to see if I can make the switch on my main PC for work. I’m loving it so far, though it’s looking like a step back for audio production unfortunately. That being said, where there’s a will there’s a way!
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s much easier to install Linux these days than it is to install Windows. And with KDE Plasma the user experience is really similar. As for the distribution I would suggest OpenSuse as that has very little requirement for terminal commands, they’ve packaged GUI elements in the whole distro.
As for Tumbleweed vs regular, that’s up to you. I’m happy with Tumbleweed.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m happy with Tumbleweed too, but I Max need to point out that the documentation kinda sucks and the community is kind of small. If you’re confident in applying documentation from other distros, you’ll be fine.
I generally recommend Linux Mint to new users because the community is large and accustomed to helping new users, and you can use documentation for Ubuntu and Debian generally without issue.
Check out openSUSE once you figure out what you like and don’t like about Linux distros, it’s a great end game IMO.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m the same, I’ve got a perfectly good desktop machine that isn’t Win11 compatible, as well as a Windows 11 laptop.
Most of what I do on the desktop is browser based, and I have the laptop in case I brick the desktop, so nothing to lose by trying.
Ironically, if I’d been able to upgrade to 11, there’s no way I’d bother with any of this.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You can upgrade to 11, nothibgs stopping you.
But it is far smarter to quit with the abusive, and spying, environment.
Linux is easy and works.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As someone who recently made the switch, DM me if there’s anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don’t have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hey, Microsoft said 10 was the last version of Windows…
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever install, so the statement was accurate but incomplete.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The last version I’ll ever install was 7, so I guess they’re back to lying!
codenul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sometimes YOU have to make changes that you want to see. And not wait for corporations
garretble@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m old enough to remember when MS said Windows 10 would be the last Windows and they’d just update it over time.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kinda glad that wasn’t the case because those of us who’ve been using Windows 10 all this time would just end up with what Windows 11 is but masquerading as Win 10.
I’m more comfortable with being pushed back into the Linux pool and relearning how to swim those waters.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Having gone from 10 to 11 - it’s pretty much windows 10, at least to an average user like myself … I’m tech savvy enough for Linux but I prefer windows for gaming.
Have to say so far I’m pretty happy with windows 11 but I’m just a random guy who uses it to play video games and that’s about it on that PC so if you’re doing anything crazy under the hood I’m sure there’s some noticeable differences.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
The assumption that you’ll lose a lawsuit against a large corporation probably stops a lot of viable lawsuits from ever happening - good for him for giving it a go.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hope he wins.
Windows peaked with XP. 7 was alright. 8 was a free fall of a downward slide falloff.
Appified overly complicated slop and bloat filled garbage ever since.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Win 2k pro was best. Fight me;) I hated the fisher price look of XP.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the fisher price look of XP.
Thank you for my belly laugh of the day. 😂
Randelung@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I liked Vista. Aero Glass was cool.
TBi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah they peaked at NT4.0! Fight me! I remember using that for my dual core celeron system! Abit BP6 FTW.
(I agree with you about 2k, but I liked XP and loved the look of Vista so what do I know…)
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
It had classic themes available
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DirectX 3.5 only? IIRC.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah win2k pro was really, really slow compared to xp
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I’m not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It’ll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don’t have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Why is the 4070 an issue regarding linux? Nvidia drivers have come a long way since the beginning of the year, currently running modded cyberpunk on my 3070 Ti without issues.
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why does the 4070 super keep you from switching to Linux? I have a gaming PC with a 4070 and I dont really have issues. No more than I did with windows in general
ronigami@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Win 7 for me. It didn’t try to fix what want broken.
lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The end of the article misses one possible way to deal with your computer, migrating to Linux. It’s not possible for all the mass of people, but it’s still a possibility.
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I feel like Linux right now is where Windows was in the XP days. for 90% of users it will work out of the box for them. They will be able to check their email, watch YouTube, doom scroll on their choose social media. The challenge is that for the other 10%, the learning curve is a lot steeper than XP was. The learning curve problem is compounded by the massive pile of guide for deprecated sub systems.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It very much is. If you’re willing to invest a few hours of your time to learn something new, you can absolutely switch to Linux.
amju_wolf@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
There is still a lot of software and some very popular games that just don’t work on Linux.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hell yes.
Switch to Mint, folks! It’s easy and works just like Windows, except better.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s been clear for years now that I’ll have to fully switch over to Linux eventually once Windows is completely locked down like Macs are. The Steam Deck has been a great stepping stone to getting more comfortable with using it.
pokexpert30@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
People will do ANYTHING but switch to linux, huh.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some key software I need to use doesn’t work on Linux, and is unlikely to be able to in the near future, sorry. I did use Linux for a while, mind you, and I more or less like it… but a computer is only useful if it runs the software you need to do the things you want to do with it.
I don’t want to downgrade to windows 11, but I’m going to be forced to. And to even do that I’m going to need to bypass the hardware authenticator, as I’m apparently ever so slightly behind their so-called minimum requirements, which aren’t really minimum requirements but just a push to get me to buy a new PC I don’t need.
oatscoop@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.
My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work in Linux.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m in exactly the same boat. Five linux machines in the house plus two windows gaming rigs, mine and my partners.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which VR headset? Don’t have problem with Valve Index or Quests.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve found that many people will go to great lengths to avoid learning anything new.
They want to be able to ignore their computers as much as possible, even considering the prospect of alternative software is taxing and upsetting for them.
I think that’s basically how Microsoft and Adobe are so successful, they bought and cheated their way into the default position, and now they can do whatever they want with no real repercussions.
The user wants to click on the same icons with the same names as before, sometimes it’s as simple as wanting the same name; if it’s not called ‘outlook’ they don’t want it, doesn’t matter how well it works.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Until Linux uses pretty pictures it won’t be a thing
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I wish more people were willing to give Linux a shot but I also understand that for most of them its a matter of the devil you know versus the one you don’t. They don’t want to learn a new OS when they can just to do their banking and watch TikTok with what they have.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Businesses are locked in and the people making the decisions aren’t IT people. I did the Win11 conversion at my last job and have been working on it at my current position. It might just be my social bubble, but the only people worried about Win10 is corpo.
iterable@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Never forget we were told Windows 10 would be the last version. That all updates from then on would be only to Windows 10.
64bitrowlet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree that windows should not stop supporting previous versions of windows. Especially when going from windows 10 to 11 wasn’t at all that big of a change. They very easily could have waited longer before making windows 11 the standard or even windows 11 period because it was not that big of a change.
Unfortunately they did not do anything illegal in my opinion but we’ll have to see how this plays out I guess.
Guidy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good, fuck ‘em.
zecg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even if he does win, it’s still Windows, still under their control. It’d be maliciously and quite supraliminaly enshittified until it’s unusable. Just slap on a CachyOS or anything else open source
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its a fun fantasy but Microsofts pockets are eay too deep to lose to some avarage joe.
goatinspace@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
🐧🐧*🐧🐧🐧=🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Uhhh what about Apple?
rozodru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen this episode before. something, something, WinXP.
thatcrow@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
They did say it would be the last version.
Anyone who bought Windows 10 expecting that to be true got scammed.
I hope the corporation has to pay trillions.
noverby@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Come on, just leave Windows all together
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’d probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don’t know…
THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY’D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nixon wasn’t speaking authoritatively there, I believe both he and M$ clarified that. And the “correlating” announcement was more “we will be continuously updating windows 10” unlike the assumed by many people to mean “perpetually” which is just silly.
You’re telling me you expected windows 10 to remain forever the last Windows version? Maybe if they decided to rename the OS moving forward.
I suppose you could take the stance of it just becoming versioned in the same way Linux distros are, but then you just get left being on an old version of Windows 10.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, I didn’t expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can’t turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn’t make claims that it can’t back up?
I’m not saying it’s right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn’t. That’s on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn’t mean it. And furthermore, why are you taking it upon yourself to clean up their mess for them? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To company that wouldn’t care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s basically how Linux works, especially if you use a rolling release distro like Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed, or Fedora Silverblue.
Honestly, if Windows followed a similar policy, I think people would be less interested in alternatives. Perhaps charge for access to new features, drop support for older hardware, etc, but let people keep using it if they like it.
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 2 weeks ago
Son of a bitch, your profile pic got me blowing on my screen.
Nice work.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, win 11 is more or less win 10 just with a shittier UI and even more intrusive bullshit.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No, they never did. Yes, it was all over the news, but they literally didn’t. Go be angry at media for making stuff up. You don’t have to believe me, go ahead and find that announcement yourself. You won’t because there was never such an announcement.
Notice how even the article you linked doesn’t give a full quote? It just quotes someone saying “last version” without any context of the sentence it was used in? I will give you the full quote where that comes form. Someone asked a Microsoft employee what they are currently working on, and the answer was:
It is obvious from context “last version” meant “latest version” here. And that misreading of a quote, conveniently not included in most articles, is the only source for all these news. No announcement. No journalist actually asking Microsoft about it. Just a fleeting comment by one Microsoft employee that obviously meant something else, in an answer about something else, but why let that get in the way of a good story.
And the exact same article you linked confirms Microsoft is still deciding on the name for the next Windows? Which would make no sense if there was no next Windows?
There will be no Windows 11, says some guy who doesn’t work at Microsoft.
And then a bunch of cherry picked quotes about continous updates being a good thing. Yep, continous updates, just like we got in Windows Vista, and that have nothing to do with there not being new Windows versions.
Modern journalism is useless.
Xzyer@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s really not hard to find the original statement from Microsoft, which was made by a Microsoft employee.
At the 2015 Ignite conference, Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon stated that Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows”, a statement reflecting the company’s intent to apply the software as a service business model to Windows, with new versions and updates to be released over an indefinite period.[68][69][70] In 2021, however, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be succeeded on compatible hardware by Windows 11—and that Windows 10 support will end on October 14, 2025, marking a departure from what had been dubbed “Windows as a service”.[71][72]
theluckyone@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
“Modern journalism is useless”, but when Jerry Nixon said “last”, you’re telling us he really meant “latest.”
Go on, pull the other one. No really, it’s got bells on it.
communism@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That wasn’t legally binding.
Shayeta@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That was advertised.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a free upgrade. Bitching about the version is insane. It was a marketing change they turned around on. It still meant you get a free upgrade which used to cost money.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not if your PC doesn’t support some arbitrary requirements. I can’t upgrade because of the TPM requirement. There are ways to get around it. But at the same time Windows 11 isn’t really something I want to upgrade to. It’s got a bunch of crap I don’t need or want. Not that Windows 10 didn’t. Windows 11 is just worse and I’ve drawn a line.
I have to use Windows 11 for work so I know what I’m missing. Nothing. Well, the screenshot button being mapped to the snipping tool is nice. But there is already a shortcut for the snipping tool.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Win 11 is a downgrade with forced ms accounts, more ads, more distractions (tabloid “news”, weather, more ads, Microsoft own product ads) added to task bar, edge and notifications. On an OS I already paid money for!
Sagan_Wept@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
🤡
codenul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Its funny since when the .iso for Windows 11 first became available, it would state you were installing Windows 10 or even Windows Server edition but after installing, it would be Windows 11
Window build numbers are still Windows 10.xxxxxx
biofaust@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And that’s why if you open the command line in Windows 11 you will read:
10.0.26200.5742
Et voilà!
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because MS went back on their promise that Win10 would be the last, you can no longer trust anything they say.