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Anonymous (ID: Ax/QWRC4) Finland No.512982590 >>512982876 >>512983311 >>512984557 >>512984981 >>512985042 >>512988429 >>512988575 >>512988651 >>512990685
upgrading windows 10 to 11 is bullshit
Windows 7 -> 8 -> 10 were fairly large jumps
But windows 10 into 11 is just stupid, nothing truly changed inside the OS

Windows 10 and Windows 11 are closer to each other than Windows Vista and Windows 7 are, and Windows 7 RTM barely added anything except a different taskbar and a few new kernel power handling functions (did you know you can add the compiler flag –DPSAPI_VERSION=1 to 90% of W7 RTM software to get it to run on Vista, all you need is sources).

Windows 10 and 11 both run NT 10 kernel and are nearly identical minus a few under the hood changes. The changes are on user level, it is what you see. But deep down no underlaying mechanism which is not visible to users, changed one bit.

There isn’t even such change that differentiates them like the few changes that differentiate Vista and 7. It is smaller between 10 and 11.

Windows 7 RTM did introduce a few things past Vista minus aesthetics but literally all of it minus one or two things was added to Vista in a Windows Update like a month after 7’s launch. Then as Windows 7 got more updates more they were backported to Vista.

>It mostly stopped when Windows 7 SP1 came out. They just stopped supporting Vista because you cant have two of the same.

That happening means that on fully up-to-date Windows Vista you can run slightly modified Firefox 141 just fine (Firefox sources are available) and you can straight up just compile Oracle Java 21 (not Microsoft Java machine) to run on Vista with that one flag I mentioned, no modifications needed.

This is semi related but they actually still push Windows Updates to Vista SP2 that include functionality like TLS 1.2 and modern SHA256 signing support. Just connect a Win Vista into internet and see how it updates the SHA all by itself. Unless you have blocked access to Microsoft server.

What even is the point of upgrading Windows versions so soon?
Anonymous (ID: CLEXj/CD) Canada No.512982876
>>512982590 (OP)
just shut up and do as you're told faggot.
Anonymous (ID: jfW375PX) United Kingdom No.512983311
>>512982590 (OP)
As a programmer, I will tell you how Microsoft ensures that upgrades always continue. Microsoft has made it such that there are numerous serious flaws and limitations with the win32 api. With each new version of windows they drip feed a few improvements. But once programmers get used to these improvements, they can't go back. And its not that they don't want, to they literally can't, they don't even understand how they programmed under those limitations previously. This is why software support for old operating systems quickly falls off.
Anonymous (ID: e3N5+YUw) United States No.512984557 >>512984810
>>512982590 (OP)
>Windows 7 -> 8 -> 10 were fairly large jumps
Really? They seemed downgrades from win server 2003/xp64 pro.
Modern versions that nag you to make a user profile are even worse. There is no reason to associate an email with an oem license.
Anonymous (ID: Ax/QWRC4) Finland No.512984810 >>512987450
>>512984557
yes they are downgrades

but it still is a big change, big jump

as a biologist I understand change pretty well, degrading from higher form of life into a lower one is just as big change as the opposite is, by the numbers of changed gene sequences

genes and computer codes are nicely comparable entities because they ideologically occupy same space
Anonymous (ID: bslYpR68) Canada No.512984893 >>512984989
It has more snooping, telemetry and requires to be logged into your microsoft account in order to even install windows.
Anonymous (ID: lGsPhd8w) United States No.512984916
Use a non-kiked Linux distribution that uses XLibre instead of Wayland, and runit or OpenRC instead of systemd.
Anonymous (ID: FMKpTVtE) United States No.512984981
>>512982590 (OP)
is that voltaire
Anonymous (ID: lGsPhd8w) United States No.512984989 >>512985391
>>512984893
You can use Rufus to bypass the Microsoft account login, though.
Anonymous (ID: dEyC5fOi) No.512985042
>>512982590 (OP)
I upgraded to Smashed-On-The-Ground version of Windows.
Anonymous (ID: BSGVRECQ) Canada No.512985391 >>512985597
>>512984989
found out about rufus a few weeks ago, holy shit its great
Anonymous (ID: Ax/QWRC4) Finland No.512985597
>>512985391
did you install windows 11 with this
Anonymous (ID: ehWQmo4D) India No.512985680 >>512985766
It's been so long that I don't even remember windows 10
Anonymous (ID: Ax/QWRC4) Finland No.512985766
>>512985680
dude there is a chance you are one of the win10 developers according to your flag
Anonymous (ID: CPixulMe) United States No.512987450
>>512984810
good analogy
Anonymous (ID: +nGpoAf6) United States No.512987833 >>512988433 >>512988573
I can't really afford to get another computer right now. Guess I'm fucked.
>inb4 just trick it into passing the checks
I've heard that kind of thing before. It's never as easy as anyone says.
Anonymous (ID: ESfpCMru) United States No.512988267
If this site weren't dead-- it would block normie nigger tiered OSs and browsers. Of course it wouldn't allow meme flags on pol either.
Anonymous (ID: kWd76S8/) Germany No.512988429
>>512982590 (OP)
>What even is the point of upgrading Windows versions so soon?
You have to give control of your computer to Microsoft and log everything online.
Anonymous (ID: RQKr7UUC) United States No.512988433 >>512988889
>>512987833
Try Linux Mint, it's far less of a hassle than making Windows work in a non-obnoxious fashion in the current year.
Anonymous (ID: e3N5+YUw) United States No.512988573
>>512987833
>I can't really afford to get another computer right now. Guess I'm fucked.
Ryzen 7 5825U 16GB DDR4 $248
Ryzen 7 6800H 16GB DDR5 $279
amazon
those mini computers aren't bad and they come with a seemingly legit OEM license.
Anonymous (ID: Pt41h5xe) United States No.512988575
>>512982590 (OP)
It's hilarious that you can rapidly discern between genuine anons and shills just by the type of lust provoking image they attach.
Anonymous (ID: OqrSP/Oe) United States No.512988651
>>512982590 (OP)
Owes me sex award
Anonymous (ID: bv/9fzE0) United States No.512988771
im going to india to start 'forcing updates and restarts' on them
Anonymous (ID: 7pitcK9l) United States No.512988889
>>512988433

Enjoy busybox
Anonymous (ID: t3Ql7qjM) Canada No.512989946
>using anything other than windows XP in the year of our good lord 2025

lmao
Anonymous (ID: FxsxA6gz) United States No.512990685
>>512982590 (OP)
that's a pretty lady and I like her ear poking out of her hair