French activists staged a funeral for Windows 10 to protest Microsoft’s push toward Windows 11 and planned obsolescence.
Let’s not pretend Windows 10 was any good either.
Windows XP was really the last decent version.
Installed it this week on an old PC. It really is unusable at this point.
So only marginally worse than Windows 11, then, and with such impressively low system requirements!
This right here. People tend to forget how controversial 10 was when introduced, and romanticise it after the fact. Case in point: Win 10’s antifeatures alone - built-in keylogger, mandatory telemetry, “upgrade” nag screens with tons of dark patterns - all that convinced me to finally make the switch to Linux before Win 7 EOL’d in 2020.
Indeed, but unlike 11 it was still more OS than a bloated slop generator.
I grieved when I bought a used laptop with Windows pre-installed. I immediately performed a ritual of Debian purification.
Windows, or any other corporate MICROS~1 product dying is a cause for celebration.
MICROS~1
LOL
I’m old enough to understand this reference.
He got that off his XP machine he was talking about! 😂
I’m not quite sure how people use Debian on a desktop machine. Do you not fall asleep while you’re using it?
I’m not falling asleep, my laptop is falling asleep.
The problem is that it never wakes up. The solution is to disable every low-power option in system settings, and pretend that my laptop is very critical server, because Debian is made for servers.
I like buttered toast
Every single morning!
The interesting part of using my computer shouldn’t be my OS, but the software I use on it.
I had to install edge on my steam deck to be able to play 1 game. I cursed the machine spirit
I… but…
Did the system requirements screen at least warn you that you need wholly unrelated 3rd party software for it? Its like if I was trying to load up QuickBooks and it was like “Please insert slice of aged cheddar into drive A: to proceed.”
I realize its not a perfect analogy-- lots of people like aged cheddar.
Standard Windows is fully enshittified, but Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is free, supported until 2032, relatively debloated, and won’t randomly encrypt your hard drive.
Of course, you can always try out Linux.
Wait.
You need no license???
Yarr.
Massgrave.dev is your friend for that.
You can obtain a license by running the activation script after Windows installation, including a permanent hardware license if desired. The easiest way is to use PowerShell and select the HWID option:
irm https://get.activated.win/ | iexTechnically this registers your hardware and key with the MS activation server, but you never have to worry about it again.
If you use Rufus to write the ISO to a bootable USB drive, it has options for disabling the user-level telemetry and MS account requirement.
Been running it for years with no issue.
Rufus is cool. If you want to customize the install more, including slipstreaming drivers and updates, there is also NTLite. Back in the day we used it to add the Intel hard drive drivers to XP installers to downgrade Vista machines.
The “archaic devices” framing of the article seems questionable to me. I don’t think a device from around 9 years ago (Ryzen Gen 1) is archaic. While these are going to be low end now they often are still perfectly usable if they were somewhat higher end at the time. They don’t lack anything a modern system should need, which is easily proven by Linux running on them just fine.
I agree. I probably would’ve disagreed 15 years ago - 2001 hardware would’ve felt archaic by 2010.
Hardware made 10 years ago is, for the average person, likely good enough to get them through another decade, if the accompanying software was kept lean. But that kinda thinking doesn’t help bank accounts swell, does it…
My PC is only like, 5 years old and Windows 11 doesn’t support it. Windows 10 ran smoothly, it does RTX, modern games run fine on it, the most graphically intensive AAA games run a little poorly but still run nonetheless, and I can always lower the graphics settings to get better performance. It’s certainly more powerful and higher spec than a lot of the office PCs that do run Windows 11. Buuuut the motherboard doesn’t have a TPM 2.0 chip so it’s archaic e-waste as far as Microsoft is concerned. It’s been running Linux just fine for the last year and a half or so, and not once have I ever felt that my PC is too old and needs to be upgraded or replaced.
How does an “archaic” high-end Ryzen computer compare to your average Windows 11 enabled $400 Walmart computer today?
Update
Compatible: Trash Walmart best-seller in 500 carts
HP 14 inch HD Windows Laptop
2-Core AMD Athlon 7120
4GB RAM
128GB SSDIncompatible: Dell XPS 13 (late 2017)
1.8GHz Intel Core i7-8550U
8GB DDR4 SDRAM 1,866MHz
256GB PCIe SSDFor what it’s worth, I have a system with first-gen Zen cores (Threadripper 1900X). 8 cores at 3.8GHz. Not too shabby even now. It’s just got a higher power draw than the newer chips. Got a fairly decent price on it on Black Friday of 2017. (Never ran Windows on it, though.)
My desktop which is running a i7-6700k from 2015 out performs all of the <$400 laptops that I could find on every metric and had higher multi core but lower single core for the $400-$600 range. I was unable to find a desktop that was <$800 that was better, so I would surmize that the desktop market won’t have a meaningful price/performance % in comparison to the laptops. At the very least with the insanity of graphics & memory prices at the moment, the budget systems are getting smoked by a desktop from 2015, even while purposefully omitting the 2070 I have because that was a newer addition and pretty much all of the systems are running poor quality integrated graphics anyway.
should have just all dressed in penguin suits, buried the coffin, stood around the grave and then pissed in it.
Kinda reminds me of when KFC Canada had a funeral for their French Fries, but that was purely marketing.
I figured it was because the government was dropping Windows that they were mock grieving.
That is awesome hail France!
