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Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10

My Acer win8.1 laptop which cannot support win 10 has a brief notification that it needs to be updated to 10 for any updates.

It enters YT and chrome with zero hiccups at all. It was allowed to exist without forced shutdown. At least until hardware becomes totally obsolete. It has Edge installed but I don't use it out of habit.
 
plague311 said:
There's an update troubleshooting tool built-in to windows now. It doesn't always work, or do much at all, but sometimes it'll clear that up for you. Usually the service is stalling out or something like that, and the troubleshooter will square it away.
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Thanks. Almost forgot as my Win 11 desktop kept hanging while left running then on restart would try to update, "something went wrong" and it would back out the update and restart.
FWIW - some people report this happening with Malwarebytes installed.
Some errors in EventViewer (as always) said the driver for my Dell D3100 dock crashed at same time.
DIMS just hung.
Rebooted after troubleshooter and so far seems okay.
 
The days are passing, and I still haven't got the option to enroll in Microsoft ESU. I am beginning to get nervous.

My expectation is that all kinds of automated Day 0 attacks will break loose when it is known that Microsoft is not going to send a correction. I am not concerned with attacks through emails, web links or files, but with attacks using standard ports that are open for Microsoft services. Hopefully, my router firewall, and antivirus system is enough to block it.
 
I got my enrollment link today. In my opinion, Microsoft is cutting it a bit close.

But now I am enrolled, and to my surprise, it cost me nothing for the first year.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Microsoft is 'removing known mechanisms for creating a local account' from Windows 11 setup - get ready to use a Microsoft account
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The important part is they're keeping domain join for the Pro version. I don't ever use any version other than that anyway, but Microsoft will certainly find a way in your pockets if they can.

Before someone else gets to it, I don't know if people are aware but if you use Linux you don't have to create a Microsoft account. Linux is the best, uncontested champion of the world when it comes to OS's. There is not, nor will there ever be, an OS that can possibly be better, or even on the same plane, as Linux.

There...I saved someone some time.
 
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This is very annoying.

Is Linux my only altrentive?

How much of a pain in the neck is it to wean myself of windows?
 
3point14 said:
This is very annoying.

Is Linux my only altrentive?

How much of a pain in the neck is it to wean myself of windows?
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Depends on what you do with your computer! It can be pretty simple or it can be a pain in the ass. You'd have to format your system and install Linux, after selecting a flavor of Linux. It's not a simple task for the average user but it can be done.

What issues are you having currently? I do a lot of windows support so I can probably help walk you through a bit.
 
plague311 said:
Depends on what you do with your computer! It can be pretty simple or it can be a pain in the ass. You'd have to format your system and install Linux, after selecting a flavor of Linux. It's not a simple task for the average user but it can be done.

What issues are you having currently? I do a lot of windows support so I can probably help walk you through a bit.
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No specific issues at all

I really only use the machine for watching things, reading things and playing games. Oh, and buying stuff. REally I'm just concerned with it still working and not broadcasting my credit card details to the world.
 
3point14 said:
This is very annoying.

Is Linux my only altrentive?

How much of a pain in the neck is it to wean myself of windows?
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About my only complaints about Linux are that my copy boots slowly, and I had bad luck trying to get some photo programs to run in it using Wine. So I've stuck with Windows mostly, but if your software needs are met by Linux, I don't see much downside to it. If you're worried about security, you can even put the OS on a DVD and boot from that, guaranteeing that you'll have an uncorrupted OS even if all your other files get clobbered.
 
3point14 said:
This is very annoying.

Is Linux my only altrentive?

How much of a pain in the neck is it to wean myself of windows?
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The problem for me is the mass of programs (called "apps" these days) that I have bought for a fortune, and that I don't want to buy again, if they exist for Linux. And then of course, there is the learning curve.
 
Hmm...

You chums have prompted me to turn on my only Windows device, to see if M$ have managed to brick it while it was turned off.

I'll be interested to see what 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt' messages I get from it.

:)
 
steenkh said:
The problem for me is the mass of programs (called "apps" these days) that I have bought for a fortune, and that I don't want to buy again, if they exist for Linux. And then of course, there is the learning curve.
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If you have an existing machine with an OS or hardware which can no longer be updated and is a risk to expose to the internet, then the simplest solution if you have the time, space and budget is to get a new(er) machine for testing purposes which you can use to find other combinations of OS and software to match your current needs, where possible.
 
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