How are you preparing for the end of Windows 10? Is IoT LTSC going to work for gaming long term?

i have disabled windows update and defender for 3 years now and i've had 0 issues with it

welcome home whtie man

gonna ignore it as is shadow installs contents in my pc.

>>715495481 (OP)
I just bought my first gaming laptop last week and it has 11 on it. I own three other laptops; one on 10, one on 7, and a Mac. Really no need for me to worry about it now.

I spend all day working on a PC so, until recently, I only every really wanted to game on consoles unless it was the type of game (Heroes 2/3, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc) that was just awful on console.

these threads are always just lintroons grooming zoomers who never went through a windows eol before.

>>715495481 (OP)
>Is IoT LTSC going to work for gaming long term?
idk it works now
if it stops working i'll just get on debian

I remember the annoying part of having LTSC 2016 was that getting games made after that date to boot required updates, so I was constantly having to update it

>>715495680
This

I thought 10 was supposed to be the last one. Why would I stay on board with a company that lies

>>715495680
defender doesn't do anything bad, not having a baseline anti virus is retarded

>>715495680
i had it disabled from installation
"support" means nothing to me
>"b-but viruses! 0-day! vulnerabilities!"
skill issue

id still be using win 7 if some of the games my friends want me to play didnt require 10

>>715496710
>id still be using win 7 if some of the games my friends want me to play didnt require 10
That's the main issue for me, I only updated to 10 because games started requiring it. I don't care much for updates or support.

>>715495481 (OP)
>end
In 2032. I'll be on Linux then.

>>715496792
if it happens again, like UE6 requires 11 or someshit, ill finally move to linux
linux players are somehow playing the latest games with whatever shit theyve got going on

>>715495481 (OP)
>How are you preparing for the end of Windows 10
I use all TPM1.0 equipment, including the laptops I gave my boomer parents so I'll never have to bother with Windows 11. I'll use Windows 10 on last gen hardware forever if I need to.
Dual channel ram and an SSD is still faster than human perception of a computer working even without the latest hardwareslop.

Didn't they announce that they're offering extended support?

>>715497838
For individuals it's one year and you gotta link your email account+pay 30 bucks. For companies, they extended like three years, also something like 30 bucks per machine.

>>715495481 (OP)
>using windows
?

>>715496997
you can tell the engineers wanted it that way

>>715495680
How?

>>715495481 (OP)
So the updates will finally stop? Neat.

>>715499456
by not being a dumbass who downloads and executes random .exes?
by having protections installed in a decent browser, such as noscript and adblock?
by having a good hardware firewall?
that is literally all it takes, even a child can do it

>>715500060
>even a child can do it
If a child is unwilling to do it, "can" they do it?
I don't think you know what the word "can" means

>>715500250
i once left my PC in the capable hands of my 9 year old nephew
he had the thing for 4 months while i was away working the oil rigs
i came back to a fully functioning machine, no shitware installed, and the only thing i noticed was a larger than usual cache folder

>>715500572
I once gave myself the task to read an entire post and NOT call the person a nigger, yet here I am nigger

>>715495481 (OP)
>Is IoT LTSC going to work for gaming long term?
It'll work at least until Win12 is out, so by then we'll know either windows is following the good/bad cycle and we can upgrade to 12 or if windows is just perma shit and we'll have to switch to linux.

>>715500679
why give yourself such a task?
are you some kind of faggot?

>>715495867
No thanks 70% of good games don't run on cucknux

>>715501270
>why give yourself such a task?
>are you some kind of faggot?
Asked the man that thinks he knows what children can do.

>>715495481 (OP)
exactly as I did last time, ignore it for years until It's time to upgrade mobo and cpu.

>>715500992
>Windows 10 is now loved
The 'up' was 8.1, it's been down ever since

>>715501497
i know what children can do because i anticipated your post, kid

>>715500250
Shut up autist lmao

>>715501572
10 was definitely hated then, but it's fine now, it's back to being on level with 7. 8.1 was just a minor fix of the total shit that was 8, it never got good or decent.

>>715501603
What does anticipating a response to a post feel like? Do you feel good?
What does that feel like?

>>715501572
>The 'up' was 8.1
no it wasn't, just adding a start button didn't fix 8

>>715501721
like talking with a intellectually-neutered faggot

>>715501781
Time well spent then? Being angry?

>>715501806
>he thinks typing responses on 4chins makes one angry or otherwise emotional
i get that you're new to the internet, but come on..

>>715500992
10 is better than 8 but it's still worse than 7. Even if 12 is better than 11 it'll likely be worse than 10 which really isn't good to begin with.

>>715501860
Said the completely content adult

>>715495481 (OP)

>>715495481 (OP)
MUH SECURITY UPDATES!!!
WITHOUT THEM YOU CAN'T USE WINDOWS 10!
IT'S UNSAFE! DANGEROUS! DON'T DO IT!!

>>715501302
it's a bit more than that

>>715501908
>said the butthurt faggot replying as fast as his little fingers can type

>>715501971
Mimicry is the highest form of flattery

>>715501908
u mad..

>>715501781
This is what happens when your OS is coded entirely by pajeets and AI.

>>715501882
>10 is better than 8 but it's still worse than 7.
Nah I think 10 LTSC feels like a straight upgrade from 7 IMO.

sorry, microshit
i wont subject myself to having this shit on my desktop

>>715502016
I see it is past your bedtime. Sleep tight Windy

>>715502101
keep crying, cobba

The time has almost come for linux.

>>715501572
Nearly all windows versions were hated at first, got better after 2938479 patches, and then everyone loved them cause the next version came out buggy.
95 was always hated
98 was so much fucked that they had to make 98 Second Edition
XP was a goddamn joke at first, ugly and ate a ton of resources compared to 2k, and it had so horrible security that it got three worldwide viruses within three days. It took five years, three service packs, and hardware specs becoming 10x better for XP to not suck.
Vista came out broken but paved the road for Win7, if it didn't introduce the UAC concept that every application had to adhere to in 3 years, then Win7 would've been as much hated as Vista (Win7 didn't have less annoying UAC prompts, it's just that in that time everyone updated their programs to not bring it up as often).
8 sucked, 8.1 still sucked.
10 sucked but after 10 years of patches it's okay.

11 is a piece of shit and I hope that whatever they use will go back to the 10 codebase. For at least the UI. The win11 UI is a bad joke.

Win10 will still run and the lack of patches just means Windows Update won't bother me until Win12 or 13 comes out.

>>715501921
I said good

If some faggot indie porn game runs on linux I wouldn't be so quick to proclaim it's the gamers choice

>>715501754
and adding bloat made 10 good how?

>>715501572
if you're a braindead faggot, sure

>>715502183

bros I encountered my first program that doesnt support 10 IoT LTSC. Docker Desktop.

dual booting linux mint now and running all my comfyui shit there. its better than windows in some ways, worse than others

>>715502246
I appreciate what they were trying to do with 8 but man it fucking sucked. It's a good ui for a phone or tablet but not a pc.

>>715502158
Win12 will come out worse than win11 and you will love it after the patches.
Not really any different from video games. From on disc dlcs to microtransactions, NFTs and crypto are coming and you will love it.

>>715502196
Multi-billion dollar Bill Gates will be furious!

>>715502346
if they dont care, why shill against it so hard?

>>715502320
>good ui for a phone or tablet
i had to use windows phones (nokia actually) for work. that shit fucking sucked.

>>715502345
>Not really any different from video games. From on disc dlcs to microtransactions, NFTs and crypto are coming and you will love it.

I never used any games that went so stupid on DLCs, never played anything with microtransactions, NFTs are already dead and I made tens of thousands of dollars on crypto.

its coming lads

>>715502482
>Aug 2024

>>715495481 (OP)
Wasn't there a way of switching to LTSC by changing the value or something?

>loonix

>>715496705
it stops me from running pirated software

>>715502196
But she's open source! You know what that means, right?

>>715501882
There will never be anything like 7 again. Maybe after WW3.

https://tech-latest.com/ghost-spectre-windows-11/
https://tech-latest.com/ghost-spectre-windows-11-home-24h2-23h2/

theres a version for both pro or home. dont install the bloat and malware versions that are standard, use this instead. also comes with an option to disable TPM.

>>715502672
barely ever happens to me, and even then you just add an exception.

>>715495481 (OP)
Give me fucking microsoft office lifetime for free and I'll fucking update to win 11. That's the deal I'm giving you Microsoft

Oh, hi. Microsoft here. We have chosen to stop supporting the operating system installed on the overwhelming majority of computers in the world at this time. It would be trivial for us to keep supporting Windows 10 but we don't want to, because reasons.

Now, we just scanned the hardware in your pc and we regret to inform you that you need a new pc. That's right. You see, your pc is missing a certain crypto-processer TPM chip that we can use to track you and everything you do on your pc. Yes, the chip gives your pc a unique fingerprint that we will verify and log anytime we want, including your browsing habits, your online transactions, your uploads and downloads, the emails you send, the devices attached to your pc including when and how you use them, your hard drive activity such as moving or deleting files, and much, much more. We will do this for you, you know, for your security.

Now go out and buy a new pc so that we can fingerprint you and log everything you do with that pc, or else you will be stuck with that old Windows 10, and when we say old we mean the version right before the new Windows 11. It's not really old but don't you worry about that. And pay no attention to that Linux guy, mmmkay?

>>715503108
Or I can just not have to do that ever

>>715496705
>not having a baseline anti virus is retarded
No, it's not. All you need is an adblocker and to not be retarded and you'll never get a virus.

>>715502382
nigger, Microsoft is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. they bought themselves a major seat of control

>>715501302
Its not 2010 anymore gramps. If anything 90% of games worth playing run on Linux now

>>715496710
>"support" means nothing to me
Same
You can literally read what the updates do
NONE of them apply to me or anything that I do, ever.

>>715503682
>support means nothing to me
>my games won't run anymore so i installed windows 10 anyways
nigga are you retarded?

>>715503752
What? You seem confused.
This is about windows updates and "support"
Not getting updates isn't a reason to go to 11 when the updates are useless anyway. I'll go to 11 some years down the road when a build a new PC

>>715503887
what do you think support is? it's the latest drivers. it's the latest libraries. it's the latest directx.
the reason games don't release version for old OSes is because they are no longer supported.

by switching to Fedora plasma as soon as i get my new internal SSD

I could not possibly care. Oh boo hoo! Support is ending!!! Who gives a shit. My computer isn't going to stop working because Microsoft stopped supporting 10.

>>715503939
That's what I literally just typed you fucking idiot
Again, none of those apply and won't for years

But go ahead with your sky is falling ass.

>>715495481 (OP)
I have a friend that just casually gave me his old PC that has a 4090 OC and 7950x3D after he bought a 5090 PC....

...and the fucker didn't tell me that he NEVER used it and didn't turn it on for almost 2 YEARS. I was going to use it for Windows 11 but now, will the fucking thing even work now???

Zoomers are retarded

>>715504117
you're seething your friend gave you thousands of dollars of stuff for free?

>>715504117
>pretending to be retarded

>>715502196
The Pacman mascot is *chefs kiss*.

>>715503535
Foundation only funds it, they don't mandate the kernel choices.

>>715504942
still waiting for the inevitable windows distribution

>>715504117
>but now, will the fucking thing even work now???
Yes, if you're not a retard.

If it's on Windows 10, you can literally check to see if it's valid for 11 if you care that much. There are tools MS have made to do that.

If it says it's the TPM, you can check UEFI/BIOS to see if TPM is off, tun that on and Windows 11's checks will let you go to 11.

Or install Arch and get off the MS plantation.

But since you're so retarded you can't do all this shit yourself without me spoonfeeding you, don't bother with Linux.

Kill yourself, BTW.

>>715505040
They could already do that since NT in 1993 or so. Windows NT (which Windows has been based on since XP for consumers) is able to replace the kernel with whatever MS wants. One of which was Linux at the time, but it wasn't "mature enough" IIRC to where they went with their own NT kernel.

Tranny troonix pajeet gayming thread.

>>715505062
>reddit spacing
you have to go back

>>715495481 (OP)
>Use Mail for Windows 10 for years
>Update literally removes it from my PC
>Any attempt to reinstall it installs Outlook instead
>Outlook is essentially the same program
>Except now it slides ads into your mailbox
How the FUCK is this legal?

Anyway I used Thunderbird for mail now.

>>715505307
>How the FUCK is this legal?
you never own software proprietary software.
you can only buy licenses to use it, until a time they so choose. stop killing games is trying to remedy this to some extent.

>>715505464
I didn't buy a temporary license for Win10, I bought the full package and they uninstalled a piece of software included with that.
It's not that they just stopped supporting it, they've actively erased it from existence.

>>715505548
>I didn't buy a temporary license for Win10
they're all temporary. there's no "permanent" license for software. they can unilateraly revoke your license at anytime.

>>715505678
Fuck me, I guess I'm switching to Linux.

>>715502183
see >>715502269 and note many silver rated games run great, they're just stacked with older reports using older proton runners.
My experience is everything has been virtually perfect, with alternate runners like GE or catchyos variants filling in any of the gaps steam official 9.0.4 or 10 beta still don't cover.
Is it an extra step?
Yes.
Enjoy having all of your steps reset shutting down telemetry on Win 11 after every sys update.
Not updating? Why the fuck even use Win11? Just stay on 10.

I've bounced off linux three or four times in the past, but since jumping ship earlier this year in feb I've gotten to the point I have forgotten I am even using Linux.

>>715495867
That's not arch.

>>715505959
sudo pacman -S cinnamon

>>715502949
>use this modded iteration including pre-compiled binaries from unknown sources to avoid Microsoft Telemetry
what the actual fuck?
If this were an after-the-fact open source tool whatever, I guess, but do people actually do this?
What legitimate kind of retard do you have to be to even think this is remotely a good idea?

>>715505062
The PC is Windows 11 Pro but hasn't updated in years...I'm fucked aren't I?

>>715500992
Just gonna pretend 2000/NT didn't happen so you can pretend there's a cycle and they didn't just shit the bed after XP?

>>715501781
I've been lucky enough to not have to interact with 11, did they really just shit out some pseudo MacOS/tablet UI and have the whole thing run off of "we have chromium at home"?

>>715495481 (OP)
i got a 5070 from work so i'm doing 3 things thats kind of a pain in the ass but also kind of fun

>rebuilding current 10~ year old PC in to HTPC for living room emu
>building new sacrificial/gaymen pc with 5070 with RGBfaggotry etc that will just stick with windows
>better of the spare parts will be used to build a linux productivity computer where actual browsing/work/porn viewing will be done

and the only dosh i will need to spend is getting a nice, subtle case for the living room.

>>715496710
>require 10
skill issue

>>715504117
Why wouldn't it work?

I had to install MS Office for my sister's job the other week and legitimately wanted to kill myself during the process.

it's absolutely incredible how indians completely destroy everything that they touch
it's like they have the reverse midas touch, the shit touch, if you will

Disable Windows Updates or SteamOS

>>715507578
Mierdas touch

>>715500992
>10 happy
>11 sad
it's the exact same os I barely even noticed a change

i hate capitalism so much it's fucking unbearable

>>715507835
that's even more true today since they backported a lot of their shit to 10.

>>715503939
anon don't even bother with these luddite retards, they have 0 fucking clue what they're talking about

>>715507849
Captalisim works, you just gotta stop being a pussy.

>>715501302
what the fuck are you talking about? almost every game runs on linux, unless you're really interested in fortnite, destiny 2, r6 siege or bf2042, the few games with anticheat that don't run on linux

>>715508285
the extreme outlier

>>715504117
I have a friend who gifted me expensive fortnite skins, I guess your friend must do it in a similar way with you but with hardware

>>715501691
> it's back to being on level with 7
haha
no

also
>8.1
>it never got good or decent
But it is

>>715507849
You hate publicly traded companies that have to maximise profits or else*
ftfy

>>715507745

>>715502298
>Docker Desktop
Works on my machine. I love stirlingpdf.

>>715508806
no, i hate that capital has usurped everything