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Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11
Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-ends-free-upgrade-from-windows-7-to-11
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 year ago
ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 1 year ago
Honestly, why do they care at this point? Do they really think someone’s going to buy an upgrade to Windows 11?
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Probably Grey Market keys being taken from old Business Win7 machines that are getting wasted in bulk if I had to guess.
droidpenguin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I enjoyed my time with Windows 7. I even remember the Windows 7 launch party marketing. Never upgraded to 10, certainly not upgrading to 11. Happy with my adventures in Linux.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
10 is way better for games than 7. I’m never touching 11, it’s awful. 10 is great when you debloat, use OOSU10, and use ClassicShell (or the updated version I cannot remember the name of) to bring back the 7-style start menu.
I’m excited to make Linux my daily driver for most things, but for a heavy game-player, a backup Win10 install is a must. Especially for VR.
Hubi@feddit.de 1 year ago
I loved Windows 7. The reason I ended up switching to Linux is (ironically) that I felt like the KDE desktop was closer to Windows 7 than the tiled start menu that Windows 8.0 had.
AbeFroman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember having Windows 7 Beta. Good times
ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 1 year ago
10 LTSC is the last tolerable version of Windows.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Does LTSC have NVidia drivers for RTX cards? My LTSB partition doesn’t and now I can’t use it for games. I’m using… 10… home. ugh
I’m going to get a new SSD and dual-boot something like Mint for a daily driver, and 10 pro or LTSC for games that run better (and VR games.)
MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
Not who you replied to but I haven’t had any issues with a 3000 series card and LTSC, but I only used it for a whooping 12 hours since I got the card (I do 99% of gaming directly on Linux) so take my answer with a grain of salt.
I might be missing something but can’t you just manually download the drivers from the Nvidia website on LTSB?
doktorseven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean 2000 was the last tolerable version of Windows.
Everything since has been just the irritating pile of trash anyone doing anything decent with has had to put up with. Linux is nice to play around with but I sure the fuck have a long list of shit that isn’t going to magically work on it.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
Just updated a Windows 7 box to Windows 10 the other day. So apparently this only applies to Windows 11. No idea if it lets you use Windows 10 as a stepping stone between 7 and 11 but don’t care. I have no plans to use Windows 11 anywhere anytime soon, so as far as I’m concerned if this means it will stop nagging me to upgrade, so much the better.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Downgrade*
nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who cares when you have the github script.
And Linux…
scarilog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MAS was actually using this method for activation. Now that it doesn’t work, this particular activation method within MAS also doesn’t work.
LaSirena@midwest.social 1 year ago
What github script?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
HWID or whatever is dead, but KMS lives on. I used this script for the first time recently and it’s magical. Best of all, you can just access it via powershell!
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fuck Micro$oft
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Last version of Windows I used was XP, Switched to Linux in 2005.
Boy it was a cool period to buy premium 2nd hand hardware when Vista came out. Because the hardware wasn’t supported on Vista.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s the year of the Linux desktop boisss!
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
peers around
This isn’t 2003!
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
If september can last forever, so can the year of the Linux desktop
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
You mean they finally are going to get more than 2% marketshare on Steam?
Ooh boi!
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could say all Android users are Linux users…
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That was a very long year!
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I want to run win 10 (or 11 if supports) on a VM with a GNU/Linux host. I have heard about ltsc and ltsb, and now this post has mentioned oo shutup 10. So which one is better to make my win machine lightweight and privacy friendly? I am planning to run only certain specific program like SPSS. No heavy gaming. Thanks.
woodgen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
SPSS has a Linux version and is Java, so no Windows required.
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Thanks, I will search. But I still want to know about my question.
spudwart@spudwart.com 1 year ago
Upgrading from windows 7 to Linux is still free
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Linux, the only thing Lemmy loves more than beans and the proletariat.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
linux users build and run this shit
camr_on@lemmy.world 1 year ago
God I love beans
and Linux and proles too I suppose
ago@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s what’s awesome about Linux and in my opinion there are more options for what you can do with Linux.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can run Linux in Windows now, so actually false.
glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I bet more people would try Linux if Linux users wouldn’t start slapping their dicks in everybody’s faces the second they read Windows or Microsoft
Lightborne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait what’s Linux, never heard of it
Jackolantern@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish I had the expertise to use Linux.
Contend6248@feddit.de 1 year ago
If you lack the bare minimum of knowledge to install a new operating system, there are plenty Youtube tutorials around which take your hand step by step.
Here is an example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ua-d9OeUOg
We get plenty of new users these days, primarily because of the gaming boom thanks to Valve. Don’t be shy, it’s easy if you’ve done it once
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If I’m honest a lot of what I learned about computers was as a result of switching to Linux. As a Windows user, breaking Windows is such a problem that you don’t dare try to learn by doing. Linux is comparably easy to fix or restore.
ThePizzaTimeBandit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use Debian or a Debian fork like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Popos! And it should be a pretty easy transition. I recommend Debian because it’s not as configured for you out of gate, but it’s still easily configurable.
spudwart@spudwart.com 1 year ago
learning linux is a process, but it’s way easier now than it used to be. It’s more of an easy to learn hard to master situation today as compared to the old “heres a box of source, compile it and hope it works, lmao” in the days of yore.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 year ago
You don’t need much knowledge to do the basics. Picking one to start with is likely a harder choice lol
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It really isn’t that hard these days. Installation isnt harder than installing Windows and most Linux distros have a built-in store now to install apps from. Definitely takes a bit of a learning curve but it isn’t as intimidating as it once was.