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byDrethon ( 1445051 ) writes:
Repeating somewhat a recent post. I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play (short of like Starfield but it will run Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well). Until the computer is not fast enough I don't need a new one and if someone hacks my machine, a bunch of computer games is not a great loss. What value is Win 11? Not the price of replacing the hardware in this desktop to me.
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byi_ate_god ( 899684 ) writes:
Surely the value is that with Windows 11 it's much easier for Microsoft to push ads and gather information on how you use your computer. Why wouldn't you want that? I don't understand
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bySoCalChris ( 573049 ) writes:
Why should anyone have to go and create a security policy, especially on a "professional" OS to prevent ads? Especially when a future update will almost certainly re-enable them.
Users shouldn't have to baby sit their OS like this. And if you tell the OS not to do something, you shouldn't have to worry about future updates overriding what you've already told it.
MS treats their power users like idiots, and is driving them away with it.
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byangryman77 ( 6900384 ) writes:
I'd really rather opt-in to any ad experiences I just can't live without.
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byComputershack ( 1143409 ) writes:
Surely the value is that with Windows 11 it's much easier for Microsoft to push ads and gather information on how you use your computer. Why wouldn't you want that? I don't understand
There are no ads on my Windows 11 install, never seen one in the four years I've been running it but then again I'm not in the USA where your government allows corporations to fuck you in the ass without even needing to give you a reach around. As for gathering information on how you use your computer telematics are a good thing too, not all bad. Without telematics you end up with godawful UIs like GIMP and the farce that is two sets of keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing in Linux depending on if you're
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byfahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) writes:
I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play ...
I have a Dell XPS 420, that a friend gave me years ago, that is currently running Windows 10 just fine. Don't know when he got it, but the system came out in 2007. I'm sure it would run Linux (Mint) very well too, though I'll be switching to a system I built already running Mint 22.2 (ASRock Z77 Extreme3, Intel i7-3770, 32GB RAM). Neither system meets the (arbitrary) HW requirements for Windows 11, if I even wanted to use it. I also have several other very old Intel-based systems that run Linux fine as
byGilmoure ( 18428 ) writes:
When my 5 year old system I built specifically to play Cyberpunk 2077 could no longer be updated to Win11, I switched it over to Linux.
by0123456 ( 636235 ) writes:
Yeah, with my old gaming PC I stuck to Windows 7 for years since it was pretty much only used for gaming and not browsing pron sites. But then Steam decided they wouldn't run on Windows 7 any more so I had to buy a new one.
Which wasn't such a bad deal as it would probably cost 50% more to build today. But with the downside that it has Windows 11.
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