French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
French activists staged a funeral for Windows 10 to protest Microsoft’s push toward Windows 11 and planned obsolescence.
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.
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.