• visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    They just try to force people to buy another PC and so many “computer ignorant” people will…poor old ladies who click on the ads…

  • lemonaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For people who still need Windows:

    I have a 10-year-old Surface Pro 4 and I was able to freely upgrade to Windows 11 and it works fine. It wasn’t technically supported but I enabled preview builds or something like that (I think I had to enable the Insider program) and it showed up as a Windows Update. I don’t know if this is applicable to all PCs that don’t support Win 11, but surely it’s applicable to some of them that Windows says don’t support Win 11.

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I said from the beginning that the tpm 2.0 requirement was a way to make people buy new pc’s. Good news for me who wants a laptop upgrade.

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’m waiting for decent support for the snapdragon x elite chips. From what i can tell from discourse online it’s still a very rough experience with linux.

        I don’t want to drop £1500 on a laptop i can’t really use.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’m already using linux, but my laptop is an older dell with a 5th? Gen i5 dual core. Still works fine, but i had to jankily push down on the keyboard ribbon cable with a piece of cardboard, still has sata ssd, screen could be nicer, bezels are an inch wide, etc. This an oportunity to get an uograde if companies are going to dump perfectly good hardware.

  • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    this is literally E-waste
    Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thing

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The ONLY thing I still apparently need Windows for is running OPL Manager and HDL Batch Installer for my Playstation 2 hard drives. Can anyone point me in a direction of Linux alternatives? I managed to get WinHiip running in Wine, but it can’t see the PS2 HDD from Wine. Pretty sure I need something that runs native, and for the life of me I cannot find anything. Which is really surprising to me.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 years ago

          One thing I would keep in mind is that the Win64 API does change from release-to-release and that my guess is that if very few people using a software package are still using a version of Windows, application software developers may stop intentionally avoiding newer API calls and features, and will just have their new release require a newer version of Windows.

          That may be okay for some use cases, like if you just want to keep an existing system working with existing software. But I think that it’s worth keeping in mind that you may increasingly not be able to use:

          • New software packages.

          • Newer releases of existing packages.

          • Software packages that make use of cloud-based services that drop support.

          • New hardware that requires software support.

          They’re probably going to take into account the percentage of people using the thing in setting their compatibility targets for developers and their testing.

          • hit_the_rails@reddthat.comEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Great advice. Here’s hoping the LTSC market share and user base noticeably increase once Win10 is no longer supported.