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    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Well my organization uses Windows 11 with exchange 2008.

      Just kidding but I’ve heard of dumber things.

      • Davel23@fedia.io
        6·
        10 days ago

        I once had a client who didn’t want to buy new Office licenses for their brand-new Server 2008 terminal server, so had us install an old copy of Office 97 they had lying around. Surprisingly, it worked.

  • The_v@lemmy.world
    16·
    10 days ago

    I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista after the 2nd servicepack fixed most of the shit. By that point it was a tolerable OS.

    I am currently hoping for a major service pack next year to fix all the stupid shit they did in Windows 11.

    You know kind of like when they fucked up windows 8, attempted a quick fix in 8.1 and finally fixed it in win10.

    Of course they are at 4 major updates with win11 and it’s still shit so the hope is very thin.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      92·
      10 days ago

      I can understand if you would want to delay on a personal machine. That’s your call. However, I am of the opinion that you should not gamble the business on it. You should not have any EOL devices in use, period. (Unless it is properly airgapped)

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        101·
        10 days ago

        You should not have any EOL devices in use, period.

        every business still running custom software on XP machines, press X to doubt.

        • Thorry84@feddit.nl
          3·
          10 days ago

          What do you mean? We just migrated that software to a Windows XP VM running on Windows 7! That was just 15 years ago, it’ll be good for another 15 for sure.

  • Godort@lemm.ee
    131·
    10 days ago

    Imagine not having windows 10 support until 2027

    -This post made by LTSC Gang

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 days ago

    Wimdows 11 broke my laptop’s built in screen support, so it’s long overdue for a Linux upgrade. I just can’t decide which-- I like what Steam did with Arch, but I tried Manjaro and it was kind of ok until I borked it messing around as one does. Once I can decide a distro though, fuck Windows.

    • Liome@pawb.social
      13·
      10 days ago

      Manjaro is notorious for getting borked. If you feel you’re able, pure Arch is way better.If you want arch based OS, but with less hassle, I hear endevourOS is good. As for Debian flavour, Linux Mint is a good choice for begginers, many people also stand behind PopOS. Ubuntu used to be the top choice, but people should probably avoid it now, as Cannonical makes some controversial choices.
      Good luck!

  • astrsk@fedia.io
    111·
    10 days ago

    I have been off windows at home for almost 10 years now, I’m really dreading the day when our office computers have to be “upgraded” from 10.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      41·
      10 days ago

      Just don’t wait till last minute. If you need to set a bunch of group policies go for it but you can’t safely stay on Windows 10

      • astrsk@fedia.io
        8·
        9 days ago

        Not my farm, not my pig. Gonna be attempting to steer my project requirements over towards the Linux side.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          33·
          9 days ago

          Just keep in mind the business needs come before your own beliefs and opinions. Like it or not chances are your business does not want to leave Windows.

          • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Realistically? Nothing. So many things have to go wrong for you to get a virus or some other form of malware. Your web browser and other software will continue getting updates for at least a little bit after the OS is EOL. Windows 7-8.1 has only just started losing software support in the last 1-2 years.

            First your OS needs a vulnerability, then the software you’re running needs to have a vulnerability, then you need to run said software, then you need to run said software and do whatever it is that can be exploited (or just run some infected software). Every once in a while you’ll run into exploits that need no interaction at all, and that’s where you can really get screwed. Windows had one the other day with ipv6, but that requires your firewall to be set to allow all ipv6 connections in which unfortunately a lot of them do. But even then someone has to have tried reaching you out of the 72 kajillion ipv6 addresses out there.

            That said unsupported devices are also a risk to supported devices. Say there’s an exploit like the ipv6 one and device A gets infected. That malware could then use other tricks to affect supported devices that haven’t been patched yet, or there isn’t a patch for it.

            I use a ton of unsupported devices, but only intermittently, and not for anything important. The likely hood that I’m getting a virus on Mac OS 9 is so incredibly small. Plus I’m not checking my bank account on that thing. I would not do anything at all important on an unsupported machine, and if it HAS to run I’d quarantine it in it’s own vlan so it can’t affect the important things.

      • Merlin@lemm.ee
        4·
        10 days ago

        I’m using Linux now for a long time as my daily driver and for all the important stuff.

        Games though I still end up using windows 10. My cpu doesnt support 11 and there’s all that crap of copilot recall and whatnot that I’m not interested at all to have on my pc.

        Hopefully playing the occasional game won’t be a massive issue because I’ll have to go windows 10 with no security updates then.

        • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          10 days ago

          Gaming under Linux is getting better and better. With all the work Valve has put into Proton, the list of games which don’t run has been shrinking.

        • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
          51·
          10 days ago

          Same boat. Linux as DD and w10 for games. Without respect to windows fuck w11. I’m not interested in their macOS-like system.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      You just stop getting updates.

      And we all know how secure Windows is, so I really don’t recommend that.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      No secure updates never lead anywhere good. Will it be doomsday? No probably not. However, the malware authors are going to target Windows 10 as much as they can because it will become an easy target the longer it goes unpatched.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      1·
      10 days ago

      If you really want to stick with Windows there are methods to bypass the CPU/TPM requirements of Windows 11.

      • BigFatNips@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        I also don’t support running windows 10 instead of Linux, but massgrave is very reputable and I’m pretty sure you can hash the ISO to be certain it’s the same as an official windows LTSC release

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          11·
          9 days ago

          If you have the official release why are you downloading it from a third party website. At best you are breaking Microsoft TOS which makes your company liable.

          • MetaCubed@lemmy.world
            3·
            8 days ago

            No-one directly suggested this was intended for a company deployment. If people want to break TOS in the privacy of their own homes then that’s up to them.

            Edit: I’m dumb, didn’t see this was c/sysadmin

    • r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      8 days ago

      Is IoT LTSC a viable replacement for a Pro install in a home enviroment? I do a lot of remote desktop work to access the machine. It’s either that or Linux with Proton to emulate Windows must haves at home.

  • zer0bitz@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 days ago

    It’s been close to 10 months since I fully switched to Linux. I am running Arch on all of my devices. Server, laptop and desktop. Desktop I have borked few times, but no worries since I dont store any critical data on the drive. Only OS because of this. I know I will bork it in future too, but I like to learn new things and Linux is the best choice for that.

    Convinced my gf to also switch to Linux, but we are still trying to find a more stable distro for her. I feel like installing Fedora or MX Linux for her.