Posted on 09/24/2025 4:07:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Microsoft offers free Windows 10 security updates for one year to US and European users before support ends on October 14.
European users get free updates by logging in with a Microsoft account, addressing advocacy group concerns about forced upgrades.
US users can get free updates by uploading profiles to Microsoft's backup service or using Microsoft Rewards points.
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I miss the simple utilitarianism of Windows 2000.
I will learn to use the Mac a neighbor gave me.
Please relay this to your lists with your thoughts on whether it’s a boon, a trap or another good reason to go Linux.
I use XP on several CNC machines and some inspection equipment.
I have just upgraded (forced by a customer for “security”) and it messed up tens of thousands of dollars of software licenses. Heck, I’d go back to HPUnix if I could (first software package I used for my engineering software.)
Somewhere, somehow, they are monetizing YOU.
I wish Linux could natively run Photoshop and other Adobe software.
That assumes your machine can “take” Win 11, which many otherwise good machines cannot, due to their chipsets not having all the security features needed. You “can” install Win 11 anyway, but won’t be able to get updates and such.
This is all beside the point that Win 10 updates now “break” many Win 10 machines. I am struggling with this on my Dell desktop right now...
(I’m posting this from my Win 11 Pro laptop, but I’m planning to switch my Win 10 Pro machines to Linux, when I get some time.)
Simple copy/paste does not work reliably in Windows 11.
Google: copy/paste does not work reliably in Windows 11
https://tinyurl.com/hknarhvf
Many articles on it. Many other annoyances.
They push Bitlocker encryption on you and one day it fails because of some hard shutdown or windows corruption or you not knowing the password or if correct it still does work even though it is the one at the https://account.microsoft.com site that you hopefully can log into to retrieve it. If not then all your files disappear. Most people won’t even know they have Bitlocker enabled until too late.
Backup your files to a non encrypted external drive. Better yet disable Bitlocker
Google: how to disable bitlocker
https://tinyurl.com/3wbp453a
Many of the big companies have had hackers steal millions of accounts so what is up with the push for Bitlocker?
Google: what is up with the push for Bitlocker
https://tinyurl.com/5n7n6pj6
Many articles to view.
I’ve already pulled the trigger, I bought a Mac Mini a few days ago.
Something has gone terribly wrong if you have to use Regedit to fix UI screw ups.
Yeah, ME was the buggiest.
I agree, but microshaft cant just leave a good thing alone, and zlways has to mess with everything- their os has gotten pretty crappy, but there are fixes. I use op3nshell to reclaim the start menu back to windows 7 style- hopefully they will include an option to fix the truncated right click menu in a future upgrade.
I am just about 80% decided to switch entirely to linux, and will do so in a heart beat IF linux can come up with a way to run sll windows programs without some form of compromise or limitations like wine has
Lot of folks going to the minis these days, pc versions too. Makes sense if the primary use of pc is internet, email some gzmes like card games, etc. Some csn run many game titles, but then youre into several hundred dollars, and almost better off buying full size pc with better specs.
Im thinkin of getting a mini as my main online c9mputer, and meep my desktop for really intense prpgrams like photoshop, some painti g programs which need horsepower graphics cards, and for some gsming. No sense running a full size energy hog all the time whe i dont use it much for painting or photgraphy or gsmes much anymore.
We’ve still got a Windows laptop around, wife needs one, so I’ve got that to fall back on.
And if I find this Mini short of horsepower, I’ll probably upgrade to a Mac Studio and put the Mini in the rack as a compute box. I’m only a few days into the conversion, but so far so good.
I think a mini would suffice for probsbly 80-90% of my computer use these days. So makes sense for me to get one. I hardly even use windows anymore... maybe 2 times a jonth or so if i have photos to improve in photoshop or onone software. My neices znd nephews use it for windows games when they visit, so i keep it for that. But really, many windows games now play on linux just fine now. Some even seem to run better.
Ill eother go with mac mini, or pc mini and put linux on it.
My Mini was cheaper at the Apple Store on Amazon than at Apple.com or Costco. Back to school sale? Dunno, but check them all.
And I have an iPad Air with a Magic Keyboard I use when I travel (and many other times), had no reason to go with a Macbook.
Oh, and the PC Minis are interesting, but it was time to walk away from Microsoft. And I started with a 2 disc drive IBM-PC with PC-DOS 1.1.
The serious homelab types are putting proxmox and docker and such on those things and using them in-rack for all kinds of stuff.
Im waiting for black friday for sales. Now thwt im later in life, ive finally learned to wait for sales when making big purchases. Wish i had done thst throughout my life, coulda saved many $1000’s over the years, but wad always too impatient to wait lol.
Yep i agree its time to move on from microsoft. Will keep windows 7 around for offline work only, but main c9mputer will be either mini mac or m8ni pc with linux
Ping me if you ever start looking at Ubiquiti. I’ve gone pretty deep in the UniFi rabbit hole, after using them casually for over 10 years just for WiFi. I’m pretty on top of that ecosystem. It’s good stuff, but it’s not easy on the wallet, unless the comparison is Cisco Meraki.
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