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the requirement of TPM on Windows 11, after someone pointed out the whole issue of trusted computing which is what TPM is, have actually made me going for Linux once 10 is no longer supported. if that was meant to secure users, then why as a minimum requirement?

Because iOS-style lockdowns are the way of the future.

My laptop from 2005 has (an old, unsupported-by-windows-11 version of) TPM. It's turned off, because I trust myself and it is my personal computer.

Microsoft wanted to do this 16 years ago or so. But now our (collective) expectations of them as a company have dropped so much lower that they can and are getting away with it.

16 years ago, automatic updates were optional, and the updates you got weren't just unpaid beta tests for corporate users. When you run Windows 7 (with all updates), 8, 8,1, 10, or 11, you are an unpayed microsoft employee because you are providing them with free hardware to run their experiments on at your own risk with no expectations of compensation. (Actually, they get money when you buy the hardware because of OEM licenses. So they are getting paid to treat you like a lab rat).

Why wait to switch? Just do it.
Unless someone actually does it, when they claim bullshit like this I know they're just going to default in the end to "upgrading" (sidegrading) Windows and making some weak excuse for it. If one third of the people who made this kind of statement actually DID what they said they were going to do, and stuck to their principles, then there wouldn't be so many people on this thread saying "windows 10."

One of these days, Microsoft is going to start force-updating people from 10 to 11 like they did 7 to 10. And you're probably just going to accept that lying down, and default because "maybe it isn't really so bad after all." That's what I think.

Words are cheap. If you talk the talk, you should walk the walk. Put your money where your mouth is.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 2 2022, 10:49

One of my current computers runs Windows 10 Enterprise. People are the enterprise version, generally less, more stable update. That's pretty much all you need. There's another, older computer that uses Windows 7 for work and TV. I don't draw or paint or anything with the latest software or the latest system. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

One of my current computers runs Windows 10 Enterprise. People are the enterprise version, generally less, more stable update. That's pretty much all you need.

Still unstable and bad, but the best windows 10 version for whatever that's actually worth.

Do you draw or paint on the older system, then?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 17 2022, 19:52

(IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Windows, iOS, Android, and maybe more

My server finally runs alpine because i got sick of debian and apt specifically.

Devuan's been nice to me so far.

Although I did get the hang of using apt, and occasionally just rebuild packages to remove dependencies I don't like (systemd usually).

Two of my machines run regular Debian Sid, but my newest acquisition has Devuan on it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 18 2022, 21:37

I can only sorta use Linux properly from my memory from decades ago when I did it for a job for a while.

I suppose its just a matter of attitude / motivation.

When I see older employees can't even use windows properly it scares the shit out of me.

Windows & Android. Have tried apple hardwares, but their OS always makes me feel like an idiot. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Linux Mint 21

I'm currently using Windows 10, although I'm in the process of setting up Arch Linux with i3 and a few other simple parts. Ideally planning to swap to a XenServer VM machine to easier swap between the two as well as have a few other ones... once I can afford a better PC (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

[www.aros.org] AROS.

Missing a few drivers I'd like (neither WLAN nor ethernet work with my old laptop, and while I have a cardbus card with a supported wireless chipset, AROS doesn't support CardBus). But it's still got a lot of things that do work.

Going to buy a mini-PCI atheros WLAN card, which will resolve the networking issue. The problem right now is that both WLAN and ethernet are Broadcom and Broadcom is awful (historically even in linux).

Some days it's stupidly tempting for me to try to operate on one of these things, remove the ethernet controller, and repurpose its PCIe lane (it's the only PCIe lane exposed on traces on this laptop, since it's a pretty early Pentium M model from before people were really doing much with PCIe).

Graphics acceleration works. Sound works. There's a webkit-based browser included. I'm actually impressed.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 6 2022, 11:44

Linux Mint 21

Been using Mint for long?

Been using Mint for long?

Since 2020.

I used it around 2013/2014.
It was okay.

I'm happier farther away from Ubuntu, though.

A lot of the computers back at my school, like 8 years ago, ran Mint. Makes me wonder what the IT guy thought of ubuntu.

He must have thought it was okay, because Mint is ubuntu derived.

At least there's no snaps (afaik) if you go with Mint over Ubuntu. Still would rather go with Debian than something Ubuntu based, after all why not just go with the source?

As far as im aware you can still get rid of snap on Ubuntu, there are quite a lot more differences between Ubuntu and Debian than there are between Ubuntu and Mint, which is why i don't really understand what's there to prefer one over the other unless you really hate canonical.

unless you really hate canonical.

Yes.

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