Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 support will end later this year, meaning nearly half of Steam users should probably upgrade.
  • TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Or, like me, still on Windows 7, they could just no longer use Steam. Lots of games I can still play on this OS or in my browser. Maybe someday I’ll go back to Linux, or maybe even React, just for the hell of it.

  • Kalkarino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m one of the many. Hate where tech is headed, I remember hearing about Microsoft wanting to turn windows cloud based with a subscription. Hell no

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I wonder how I’d be considered. I use Steam on Linux on one computer, Windows 10 on another, and Mac on another. Maybe I get counted thrice.

    • spiffpitt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      pretty sure it’s based off of which clients of yours got prompted to do the hardware survey

      • EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Both my windows and Linux client got prompted, but I declined the windows one. Most of my gaming happens on Linux nowadays

  • Loce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Win 11 is downgrade to Win 10, and I expect Win 12 to be a downgrade to Win 11. I still didnt decide whether Mint or Kubuntu will be the next OS on my pc. I’m pretty sure Windows 12 has no chance.

  • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Every single edition of Windows introduces new forms of bloat and new ways for MS to overreach and attempt to play corporate nanny over a user’s system; why the fuck would anyone willingly upgrade Windows when they have the chance not to?

  • stopforgettingit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I had to install Win 11 on my work computer and it is still total dogshit. One example - The search from the Start menu never works so you have to pin every app to start or go through the whole app list to find the one you want. Its been like this for a year at least. Things, like my speakers, just randomly stop working and I have to restart to get them to work again.

        • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          7 days ago

          Does the job & will let you pare down the menu to the essentials, move start position etc. Can also be deployed and configured by GPO, which has been a godsend.

          For the issue that you can no longer tell Windows to show all icons in the system tray, you can manually drag them out of the overflow into the visible part - or slap this into a powershell script and have it run at logon to do so automatically:

          $Name = 'IsPromoted'
$Value = '1'
Get-ChildItem -path $RegistryPath -Recurse | ForEach-Object {New-ItemProperty -Path $_.PSPath -Name $Name -Value $Value -PropertyType DWORD -Force }

          For the right-click menu being shit, hold shift before clicking, or put this one-liner into an adminstrative command prompt for a longer term fix. Restart explorer or the PC as a whole to apply afterwards:

          reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

          Snappy Driver Origin is great for obtaining up to date drivers. I’ve also had good luck pasting the hardware ID into search with site:driveridentifier.com to snag better drivers. IDs can be grabbed from device manager, under the details tab for the device properties. Example.

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    There are two things that hold me to Windows (10) as my daily driver: MS Office, and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

    My secondary laptop, my 4 year old’s laptop, my gaming device (Steam deck), homelab, are all on Linux. It has been fun to learn Linux and it’s what I intend for my kid to grow up on.

    Eventually, when I get a new laptop (current is 8 years old and I’m really hoping Framework gen 2 has a touchscreen) it’ll be Linux first… And I hope Nextcloud gets that virtual file sync going by then because a network share/WebDAV connection will make me sad.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
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      8 days ago

      and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

      What’s a virtual file synchronization?

      • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I may be pulling out the wrong term, but:

        The Nextcloud application on Windows shows the entire contents of your Nextcloud account in Windows Explorer, as if they were on your hard drive. They are indexed in search. When you access a file, it dynamically downloads that to your hard drive where it stays and is kept in sync with any changes on the server and the server is updated with any changes to the local file.

        Maybe on demand file sync is a better term.

        • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Ah, like the Android app. I think the Linux Nextcloud version has an experimental option for it but I never gave it a try.

          I assume the partial sync is not sufficient for your use case? I usually only sync the folders I need on that machine.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 days ago

          They’re right though. 8.1 had the best of both 7 and 10, with none of the bloat. Only reason why I stopped using it was because I was forced to because literally no one supported it. Which is a damn shame cause it was considerably better than 7. Just got a bad rep because of 8.0.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I still use it on my living room PC to this day. No issues so far (steam still works fine as well).

        Just like anything make sure you have backups and watch your accounts.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’m certain there would be a pile of unpatched vulnerabilities with windows 7.

        I would not recommend it.