cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3624·
    1 year ago

    “I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it.”

    Good, users like you are the reason ransomware happens. Fucking update your shit. Windows 7 isn’t secure anymore.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        1 year ago

        “Held off” doesn’t really sound like he switched from one to another, just like he’s holding out on updating the OS.

    • TeepoPeeto@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Fuck your judgemental horseshit. Enjoy your loss of ownership and telemetry laiden trash.

      I use arch btw.

      /s but seriously “held off” doesn’t mean “kept using aftsr end of service” like you assumed. Lots of people waited till 7’s end of life to switch.

      • Isho'ye@mastodon.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        @TeepoPeeto @c0mbatbag3l Stuck with Win2k from 1999-2010, was forced onto XP when stuff like games wouldn’t install because 2k didn’t have Windows Firewall. Never mind the PC already had a decent firewall (think it was atGuard).

        Still use Win7, in a VM, as it’s where my 🏴‍☠️ Adobe products run.

    • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      I like how you just assumed win7.

      I held off to - when 7’s support ended I moved to 8.1 and used openshell to make it look like 7. When 8.1 support ended I moved to 10 finally. I have to stay on a supported os for security and compliamce, but I make my employer pay for the upgrades and I don’t rush to the latest version - as long as its still supported I’m not moving.

      I have a light at the end of the tunnel tho. My work tools are getting official linux versions. My work laptop has been windows but my home desktop has been linux. I may be able to drop windows entirely soon.

      Edit: “he didn’t upgrade AND he disagreed with our hive minds opinion! Quick downvote!” How about you just Go back to reddit losers.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Of course I assumed windows 7, no one liked Windows 8/8.1

        I’d wouldn’t blame anyone for skipping right over it to 10, it’s what I did. We are all required to run 11 now but 10 is still fine from a security posture at the moment in my opinion.

        I’m not security, just a network engineer with a background in security auditing, so I could have out of date info on 10 still being safe, but it still gets updates at least.

    • sp00nix@lemmy.ml
      99·
      1 year ago

      I don’t even understand the hate. It works well, stable, fast and pretty decent on RAM. Even early on I haven’t had any major issues.

      • StuckInAWell@lemmy.world
        146·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’m generally an early adopter of software, even installed XP media center edition and Win 8 as soon as they were available through the volume licensing center. I’ve never understood the hate around 10 or 11 on the whole. Yes they have a few frustrating aspects, but overall, they’re significant improvements. I occasionally use a win 10 device at work, and it feels clunkier than 11 now. 7 was great, but it isn’t worth compromising an entire network for.