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Re: windows 10 not dead
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Kilmatead
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After 2 decades of micro-managing the lives and deaths of millions of little Roman soldiers and citizens when playing Total War, I have yet to tire of breaking things and dashing the dreams of the innocent.
The West Wing wrote:"They wanna drag you to The Hague and charge you with war crimes, what do we say?"
Bartlet stares silently at Oliver for several moments.
"Bring it on."
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(I'm actually posting in here in dual response to this thread plus the other one where user dunno asked about being forced to leave WinX, and I had originally had a bunch of posts I had clicked on to reply too, but that was getting messy. Forgive me if this seems to stray OT, but it is more of a general post replying to quite a few posts in both threads)
I'm seriously considering moving away from Windows, as my daily driver OS, completely, for the first time in years.
While I wouldn't mind being able to run MacOS, the fact that I'm stuck getting their hardware (without a massive amount of effort for homebrewing MacOS) sticks in my craw. I haven't bought a pre-built machine, (barring my 6th gen Intel-based laptop, used in 2020, for teaching classes when I was an instructor for CompTIA certification classes back in 2020) for well over 2 decades. I'm not about to start now.
I build my machines for my purposes, and with components I want to use, and need an OS that I can freely install on said hardware. Win11 fit that bill - until it didn't. Specifically, when they wiped out my 8 VMs with licenses tied to my Microsoft account because they were originally upgraded from valid Windows 7 keys I own (via TechNet).
Meanwhile, the push to include more and more CoPilot utter bullshit is pushing me farther and farther away from the ecosystem.
I've been using Win11 since Beta, around the time I built my current PC (https://valid.x86.fr/20gzlc), and for a while, I loved it, even with the increased resource usage versus WinX. However, the times, they are a-changin', and I've had enough.
As Tuxman mentioned, I, too, am far from being a spry, young chicken. At 55, I'm not the typical age for a strong gamer, and yet, I'm a strong (PC) gamer. I've used many different platforms on Windows - EA (RIP), GoG, Steam, XBox for PC, Battle.net, Epic, Ubisoft, and more - but lately that vast majority of my gaming is either on Steam or Google Play for PC. In light of that I'm looking (seriously) at either Bazzite or Nobara as my actual replacement, and I'm leaning toward Nobara, but I'm also toying with getting back to Gentoo (or a derivative called Mocaccino) as my actual desktop OS.
Unfortunately, that will also lead to me not being able to use Nikos' products anymore (at least not until I get Wine installed), and as for gaming, well, Valve has been working hard on compatibility using their Wine fork called Proton - it's nowhere near complete, but it has more games than just a couple hundred. A lot more.
https://www.protondb.com/
The main game I play, Cyberpunk 2077 (yes, still - and yes, I love this game), is certified gold in terms of playability in that database. I have over 1000 hours logged into playing this game, and I'm currently playing yet another round of it. In fact, the only game I've played more is Mass Effect 3, and they are very close - ~1022 hrs for Cyberpunk versus 1053 hrs for ME3. But I'm moving away from using EA on my desktop, so I doubt I'll ever log anymore hours in ME3, and Cyberpunk will supersede it shortly.
Since I'm still currently running Windows, I can easily make VMs of both Bazzite and Nobara and really play around with them, get an idea of how they work (and, more importantly, if I want to go either of these 'easy' routes or go more with what I'm already used to - Gentoo, aka LFS, or Mocaccino).
Another thing I'm (potentially) considering is throwing ProxMox on this rig and then throwing any of those on as VMs that I can call up at any given moment - including a Win11 install that I can also boot natively into. Though not new, this rig is more than sufficient to do this even today.
I also (briefly) considered moving back to Win10 LTSC, but I really don't want to do that either - Micro$oft has lost me as a supporter now, and I'm loathe to give them any more time on my machine (except for keeping a VM of Win11 around for support purposes, as my septuagenarian mother and octogenarian father are still using it, so having it handy to use when remotely fixing their machines would be beneficial).
Regardless, though, I'm done with Micro$oft as much as I can be, and will be making the transition to ... something ... sometime this year.
I write all this not as any sort of endorsement for any one path over all others, but simply as my own state of mind and decision making process. What anyone else does is up to them. This is simply the direction my own journey is moving in, and I thought I would share.
I'm seriously considering moving away from Windows, as my daily driver OS, completely, for the first time in years.
While I wouldn't mind being able to run MacOS, the fact that I'm stuck getting their hardware (without a massive amount of effort for homebrewing MacOS) sticks in my craw. I haven't bought a pre-built machine, (barring my 6th gen Intel-based laptop, used in 2020, for teaching classes when I was an instructor for CompTIA certification classes back in 2020) for well over 2 decades. I'm not about to start now.
I build my machines for my purposes, and with components I want to use, and need an OS that I can freely install on said hardware. Win11 fit that bill - until it didn't. Specifically, when they wiped out my 8 VMs with licenses tied to my Microsoft account because they were originally upgraded from valid Windows 7 keys I own (via TechNet).
Meanwhile, the push to include more and more CoPilot utter bullshit is pushing me farther and farther away from the ecosystem.
I've been using Win11 since Beta, around the time I built my current PC (https://valid.x86.fr/20gzlc), and for a while, I loved it, even with the increased resource usage versus WinX. However, the times, they are a-changin', and I've had enough.
As Tuxman mentioned, I, too, am far from being a spry, young chicken. At 55, I'm not the typical age for a strong gamer, and yet, I'm a strong (PC) gamer. I've used many different platforms on Windows - EA (RIP), GoG, Steam, XBox for PC, Battle.net, Epic, Ubisoft, and more - but lately that vast majority of my gaming is either on Steam or Google Play for PC. In light of that I'm looking (seriously) at either Bazzite or Nobara as my actual replacement, and I'm leaning toward Nobara, but I'm also toying with getting back to Gentoo (or a derivative called Mocaccino) as my actual desktop OS.
Unfortunately, that will also lead to me not being able to use Nikos' products anymore (at least not until I get Wine installed), and as for gaming, well, Valve has been working hard on compatibility using their Wine fork called Proton - it's nowhere near complete, but it has more games than just a couple hundred. A lot more.
https://www.protondb.com/
The main game I play, Cyberpunk 2077 (yes, still - and yes, I love this game), is certified gold in terms of playability in that database. I have over 1000 hours logged into playing this game, and I'm currently playing yet another round of it. In fact, the only game I've played more is Mass Effect 3, and they are very close - ~1022 hrs for Cyberpunk versus 1053 hrs for ME3. But I'm moving away from using EA on my desktop, so I doubt I'll ever log anymore hours in ME3, and Cyberpunk will supersede it shortly.
Since I'm still currently running Windows, I can easily make VMs of both Bazzite and Nobara and really play around with them, get an idea of how they work (and, more importantly, if I want to go either of these 'easy' routes or go more with what I'm already used to - Gentoo, aka LFS, or Mocaccino).
Another thing I'm (potentially) considering is throwing ProxMox on this rig and then throwing any of those on as VMs that I can call up at any given moment - including a Win11 install that I can also boot natively into. Though not new, this rig is more than sufficient to do this even today.
I also (briefly) considered moving back to Win10 LTSC, but I really don't want to do that either - Micro$oft has lost me as a supporter now, and I'm loathe to give them any more time on my machine (except for keeping a VM of Win11 around for support purposes, as my septuagenarian mother and octogenarian father are still using it, so having it handy to use when remotely fixing their machines would be beneficial).
Regardless, though, I'm done with Micro$oft as much as I can be, and will be making the transition to ... something ... sometime this year.
I write all this not as any sort of endorsement for any one path over all others, but simply as my own state of mind and decision making process. What anyone else does is up to them. This is simply the direction my own journey is moving in, and I thought I would share.
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Kilmatead
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Re: windows 10 not dead
Forgive my having a little forest-for-the-trees moment here, but doesn't 1,053 hours of FemShep already qualify you for an all-expenses-paid intervention-level-extravaganza at your friendly neighbourhood conversion-therapy parent-teacher meeting? Seems to me you may have already done all the transitioning you need, never mind waiting a year for your mind to catch up to your newfound body-dysmorphic-techno-dystopian milieu.johngalt wrote: 2026 Feb 04, 21:52 and will be making the transition to ... something ... sometime this year.
Maybe Koyaanisqatsi was on to something after all. 25 years ago I started getting dizzy after 10 hours of GTA III and my therapist spirit-animal (a teddy-bear named Freud) just shrugged and said it's the little things that start to clue you in to what's really goin' on in the old noggin after awhile.
Just sayin'.