If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ‘junk’ - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you’re still using Windows 10 and don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

  • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    225·
    1 year ago

    You can use Rufus to install windows 11 and bypass the requirements. It does everything for you – downloads the latest win 11 service pack, removes the blocking requirements, and you can even tell it to automatically disable all of the telemetry and phoning home. You’ll still need a license key when you install, or run it on a machine that was running a valid win 10 install previously. But I’m running win 11 on an 8 year old PC with zero issues.

    Here is a good guide that explains in detail.

    • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      I would like to point out that this is exactly the same difficulty of just installing linux, without freeing you from microserfdom.

      • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The problem for me is that I basically only use my PC for gaming and YouTube.

        I know SOME games work, but I don’t want to add to the list of games I can’t play because they’re console/windows only. :/

        • Hexarei@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          We’ve long since transitioned into the “most” games work territory. Basically apart from anything with rootkit-like anti cheat, you shouldn’t have any trouble playing games at all.

      • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Comparing the level of effort to run windows vs Linux is a whole other thing I’m definitely not getting into. I use Linux for work and run it on two machines at home, but I also use my Windows box for games. You can use and enjoy both, it doesn’t have to be a religious war.