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    11? Fuck that, I’m not sidegrading to 8.

    I ain’t even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.

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        Stockholm syndrome windows users trying to justify their toxic relationship to microsoft (colorized circa 2020).

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        It’s insecure (in more ways than one) to be running Windows in general. If you value security to a high degree you probably shouldn’t be using Windows.

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        Well, security doesn’t matter for a media device like that. The exposure is so minimal that it might as well not exist.

        Hell, considering I really only use it to pirate shit maybe once a month nowadays, my main desktop PC isn’t even on enough to matter; I could keep any old OS on it.

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      I’ve been forced to install Windows 10 on my brand new build because it doesn’t support W7.

      But Steam is also dropping W7 support by the end of this year anyway. Yes, there are native Linux games on Steam and there’s also Proton and WINE, but it’s not a 100% solution.

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        Well, I was hyped for Baldur’s gate 3, and I may still end up getting it, but I’d have to upgrade too much hardware to play it, and there’s really no other games that I’m interested in.

        Musicbee is the main reason I’m still running 7 on that pc rather than some flavor of linux. If it ever gets a port, or actually starts working right via wine, bye bye windows for me.

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          MusicBee is excellent, but I gave up on it to switch to Linux. Also, I’ve started to fall in love with simple players which depend on folder structure rather than a database, although I suppose one might miss the customisation with MusicBee

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    True story: I had been consistently telling my laptop not to upgrade to Windows 11 for literally months. I left it at home for like 3 days and when I came back it had upgraded itself anyway. That was the day I completely deleted Windows from my laptop. Formatted the entire hard drive and haven’t regretted it yet. Never even logged into Windows 11.

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    Does win 11 still require physical hardware to run? Why I have to sacrifice one of my motherboard slots for a worthless authentication chip that might stop working and brick my computer - ya I’ll stay with 10.

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        It’s built into my CPU but for some reason MS doesn’t trust the Intel Core i7 chips.

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        Strange, I thought it was a standard header. Why I bought 10 instead of 11 when building my computer.

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          It’s either the LPC header or it’s soldered onto the board directly. LPC header doesn’t have any other *official uses so it’s not sacrificing functionality. Though I can understand why somebody wouldn’t want to have a TPM module on their board. It’s pretty easy to bypass that requirement in Windows (over and over) though.

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      You’re not sacrificing a slot. TPM chips are typically either soldered onto the motherboard, built into the chipset, or (in the few instances that they are optional) go in a special port just fir them.

      There are plenty of reasons not to move to W11 without making up new ones.

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      Technically it’s an artificial requirement, it’ll run just fine without secure boot and TPM, you’ll just need to do some work around to install it that way.

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    TIL that you can be coerced into win 11 upgrade. I have immunity, tho! My PC is too shitware ;-;

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      It told me that too. Which was fine because like nobody asked? But then it did it anyway. Quietly in the night like the sneaky little hoe that it is. I’m still pretty salty. I thought I was safe 😔

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        Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa. But…if your machine is too weak to run it…isn’t this simply damaging your machine at that point?! The hell?!

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    I moved to Linux (Arch btw) and I haven’t looked back.

    The lack of bloatware and the snappiness of Linux just beats any other OS.

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      Can you tell me what your remember about it? I remember watching an episode or two and not liking it, but I’m curious about your opinion.