French activists staged a funeral for Windows 10 to protest Microsoft’s push toward Windows 11 and planned obsolescence.
Microsoft Windows was never a good operating system. Oh sure, it had its moments, but I don’t remember ever being not frustrated by certain elements in Windows.
Leaving Windows shouldn’t be a funeral, but a sick ass celebration like after blowing up the Death Star.
… but when MSFT employees hold their own protest, in their place of work, against MSFT software being used to murder Palestinians, some months before this, they get arrested.
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-azure-gaza-israel-protests-49a0dd5905a1cf16eb3e19a98ca17d50
They got arrested of course because precious, precious property was mildly inconvenienced, and the cops made up lies about them.
The problem is not really the end of Windows 10 itself. It was released in 2015 which is more than 10 years ago. Even Apple and Linux do not support versions of their OS fur such a long time.
The real problem are the hardware requirements of Windows 11 which do not allow users to install it on older PCs, but the article mentions that only in one short sentence.
In my opinion, end consumers should have the right to buy each PC/notebook with at least two Operation System options and the vendor must provide open source drivers for the hardware. The reason why so few people use Linux is, that Windows is preinstalled on most computers.
Governments and companies should switch to Linux to be independent from Microsoft. It’s simple risk reduction.
What a weird thing to protest this way… How about just installing Linux?
That site is cancer.
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.
I bought a NAS, and it had windows installed. Why?
It comes with a copy of Internet Explorer, and a copy of MS-DOS.
Only for a minute, now it comes with a good serving of TrueNAS
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?
If I don’t, will I ever sleep at all?
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.
That’s what Mint is for. It just gets out of my fucking way. Most of the time I’m not aware that I have an OS.
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 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.
They made it so you have to open a browser to log in your account and not the launcher, only edge worked 😑
Let’s not pretend Windows 10 was any good either.
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.
Windows XP was really the last decent version.
7 was also good, the oldest windows with a UI that still feels usable today.
I still run a PC on 7. Its fun to see that everything still works.
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!
Also less spying. So maybe about on par with 11?
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???
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.
Yarr.
should have just all dressed in penguin suits, buried the coffin, stood around the grave and then pissed in it.
I figured it was because the government was dropping Windows that they were mock grieving.
That is awesome hail France!
Kinda reminds me of when KFC Canada had a funeral for their French Fries, but that was purely marketing.
