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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

The only people that will really suffer from this is businesses. They will have to buy W11, and they will need to get supported hardware. However, businesses usually have rolling upgrades in place in the IT and have probably rolled out many already.

As for home users, with each newer generation, they become more tech savy. I can tell you now, this won't affect as many people as you imagine.

1: W11 is free to download from M$. You can choose whether or not to buy a licence. W11 cracks already exist, M$ is still using key management services, so something like KMSpico still work. There are also tons of activator scripts on github (lol, since M$ owns this!).
2: Grab a copy of RUFUS. Use it to take the W11 image and remove all restrictions, and dump it to USB.
3: ???
4: Profit.

[–] SneakyLemming@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I had no idea this existed, thanks! My hardware is right at the cutoff for Windows 11 support but still runs strong. I’ll have to play around with this but it should allow me to squeeze a few more years out of it. The windows 10 expiration is definitely making me want to try Linux though.

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