this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Bill said Windows 10 was the last one, so...

True story: I had been consistently telling my laptop not to upgrade to Windows 11 for literally months. I left it at home for like 3 days and when I came back it had upgraded itself anyway. That was the day I completely deleted Windows from my laptop. Formatted the entire hard drive and haven't regretted it yet. Never even logged into Windows 11.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

11? Fuck that, I'm not sidegrading to 8.

I ain't even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.

[–] hameru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it insecure to run such an old version tho? (Since it stopped recieving updates years ago)

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, security doesn't matter for a media device like that. The exposure is so minimal that it might as well not exist.

Hell, considering I really only use it to pirate shit maybe once a month nowadays, my main desktop PC isn't even on enough to matter; I could keep any old OS on it.

[–] Insanelysick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is connected to your router it’s a point of ingress.

[–] Fed@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The risk of getting a attack via the router is very low these days

[–] ech0@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Lol! You're an idiot

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why not run a minimal distribution like Alpine if you're just torrenting?