Oh no.
Anyway...
MrVilliam
joined 3 weeks ago
Dope! I appreciate you taking the time! So it sounds like a slightly less bloated version of 10 that gets more support, but it may not be exactly legal and breezy to obtain for my personal home use.
With the possible exception of finding drivers for a device or two, it sounds like I'll be better off just pivoting to a Linux distro mid 2025. I have been happy with SteamOS on my docked steam deck with m+kb and controller, so I'm sure I won't be missing much by picking a popular distro that I can find troubleshooting guidance for when I hit inevitable snags.
A few questions since you seem to know much more about this than I can probably even find from searching:
- What is "IoT"? What is "LTSC"?
- Other than update support, how is this different from my existing home laptop's Windows 10?
- Is this free? Will there be obnoxious limitations or reminders to pay to activate?
- Why should I as a medium skill home computer user without work needs opt for this over Mint, Ubuntu, Nobara, Arch, or whatever other distro somebody would insist I use? I don't need Office.
Just choosing to phrase it with an air of plausible deniability paired with a pun related to the industry.
So deny their preventable death?
Breaking news! Conservatives are bad at media literacy!
Guys, are you all just now realizing this? You never noticed a lot of people liking RoboCop and Starship Troopers for all the wrong reasons? Are you just now noticing how many shitty douches were fans of Rick and Morty, and it never occurred to you that they didn't recognize the toxicity of the characters and that they legitimately thought that they were brilliant people who need not show any amount of patience or respect to others because of the invincibility awarded to them by their sheer incomprehensible genius? But really they're just cringey, frustrated losers looking to bully a world that has always bullied them, and they want to drown their dino nuggets in their goddamn Szechuan sauce while bellowing "PICKLE RICK!" into the corners of their smelly studio apartment from the comfort of their used futon bed. Things aren't getting better for them, and things were allegedly better before, so in a fit of frustrated desperation, they vote Republican to try to live a life like they saw in those older movies and sitcoms.
They want to be Ferris Bueller so badly, but they're nostalgic for a time that never really existed. They completely miss the point of fiction. These stories they love were written with intention to deliver a purpose, and that purpose is rarely just surface level entertainment. The audience is supposed to learn something. It's like reading The Fox and the Grapes and thinking "yeah, grapes suck."