Great strategy to force users have a bad experience while your platform is in decline to a free and user friendly alternative. Very smart of MS, as per usual.
Deal! (i'm swithing to Linux)
Have fun! It's a learning curve, but a very accomplishable learning curve, and at the end you get to say that you don't use microsoft
The great windows 10 shutdown is coming in a couple of weeks and I still haven't upgraded my wife's laptop! The main holdup is backing up, it turns out that hibernation need to be disabled in Windows 10 to do a proper backup, otherwise there is some sort of encryption on the backup. I wasted 2 days on this already copying 500GB just in case upgrade fails.
Upgrading to mint of course!
Good riddance
Joke's on them. I'm not about to use Windows 11 anyway
If no workaround can be found, I may finally be able to get Mrs. Erinaceus switched to Linux...
That's fine by me.
There needs to be some sort of EU directive that once a hardware device sells enough units they MUST provide the equivalent software features and functions available on windows for Linux, and not just a plain driver with no config options.
Imagine being able to buy hardware knowing you can configure it in Linux without relying on some unsupported thing made by the community.
11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, and be free from this and other M$ bullshit.
*install windows not use windows; regular local accounts can still be created afterwords.
OOBE doesn't sounds too much OOBE to me...
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