I got an email about support ending in October 2025; isn't this still extremely early? Aren't they usually about two or three versions of windows down the line before they end updates?
I don't want windows 11 (and no I don't want Linux either, knock it off); this is ridiculous.
That's fine, all you have to do is go is copy paste this command line prompt and download this obscure third-party software and edit this registry entry and toggle these boxes and turn off updates and download this specific unlisted windows version and install it from scratch and disable this thing in your BIOS and set a custom group policy for your user and...
This is literally what Linux feels like to me, especially the command line ish
You can opt out of the vast majority of command line shit. I do development work and I barely use the terminal at work. I never use it on my personal machine at home. I’ve found that a lot of people who give advice like “run
sudo apt-get install thingy” instead of “go to thingy.com, click download, and then double click the file it downloads” are doing so because they prefer the more command-line oriented way of doing things. Which is fine, but not strictly necessary most of the time, especially if your OS is a glorified container for a web browser.Can I ask what you’ve tried to do in the past that had people sending you straight into the command line?
Literally day 1 install shit, I gave Ubuntu a shot a few years back and I felt lost. Maybe my brain was too small, but it just felt like your post in a nutshell. I’m also a
so that could also be my bad for trying to download something other than Gimp
Yeah gaming can still be a pain at times. It’s gotten a lot better even within the past couple years but I can understand why people hold out on it