I finally upgraded to 11 last week by accident. Apparently one misclick means straight to next version with no cancel. So after the upgrade first thing I did was get o&o shutup10 to kill the spywares. P.s. I know I can revert. But that's also effort.

Hadn’t heard of shutup10, I’ll be digging into this tonight

How do you get a copy of that? I tried poking around but MS has the shittiest docs.

Something about a mass grave.

Revert then. This is exactly what Microsoft are counting on, that people will simply go "oh well" and just carry on with Windows 11, because any effort needed to move away is too much effort. Prove them wrong. Stand up for yourself.

I went to 11 and have gone back to 10. The only thing it does is mine crypto coins (I need a heater in that room anyway - whatever). Everything else works better in Linux. 11 was fine until they repeatedly kept breaking their updates. Next time I have to reload that os on that drive it’ll be hiveos. It won’t be as convenient as the auto switchers like nicehash and their alternatives. But ya, windows sux these days.

under the marketing it’s still 10.x.

Something something .dev

The second creative cloud is on Linux the share of windows users will drop dramatically.

Found a copy on [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/Windows10EnterpriseLTSC202164Bit). After that, you just need a KMS activator. Massgrave's is typically the recommended one.

I enjoyed the visual design of Win 11, but the bloatware, spyware, and AI slop it started to install was just too much. The Steam Deck has proven 99% of Steam games run fine on Linux, so I made the switch and killed my Windows partition a few months ago. Feels so clean and light running Linux - my god I never knew my PC could run so fast! Windows was really truly awful and I had no idea until I removed it from my life completely. Games run flawlessly on it - I'm using Elementary OS because it's clean and user friendly.

I'm one of them. My 6th generation processor means that Windows 10 will be the last version of windows that this machine runs.

I built a new gaming PC and installed Linux on it. After years of threatening to do it, I finally followed through and made the switch.

Crypto mining works better in windows!? GPU compute is usually a Linux forte. By a huge margin, for me.

Welcome to the club!

Adobe needs to be abandoned as well. Clip Studio, Krita, Gimp, Affinity are either free OSS or one-time-payment great alternatives without the AI and privacy BS.

I mean, I tried for about a week... Got a larger SSD and I wanted to reinstalled Windows, so I went through the whole getting Win11 thing, and it wouldn't let me install it. Although I have a full blown paid for Home Edition Win 10 linked to my microsoft account. It said I had to install Win 10 first, so I did.. AFter all that, I went into windows update like is said, looked for the Win 11 update option... Doesn't exist... My AMD 5800X and everything else on my PC supports Win 11. It's just not giving me the option. So I gave up... I'll likely use Win10 until SteamOS is released...

Once EOL hits I'm switching to Linux.

Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I've been debating the upgrade for a while and I'm basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn't if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

I use Linux mint. Steam works great. The desktop works great. Like 5 min a month checking on updates and backups.