Microsoft has a serious problem on its hands, thanks to competition from ... itself?
  • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.

    It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.

    But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…

    I even bought her the affinity suite.

    I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.

    I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?

    I use arch, btw.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I know it’s not a hardware compatibility problem. People just don’t want ads/tracking/AI bullshit, a removed control panel, settings that are hard to find/hidden, etc.

    All intel processor 8th gen+ (and even some 7th gen IIRC) are win11 compatible, motherboard have TPM2 for years, even my intel 6th gen MB have TPM2.0.

    Next year the intel 8th gen will have 8 years, people have PC/laptop more recent than that. Problem is that win10 will not get security updates and all.

    I’m using MX Linux BTW.