this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
310 points (100.0% liked)

Free and Open Source Software

17779 readers
16 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] frog@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

I've been a late adopter of every version of Windows I've ever used - and I skipped 8 too, switching to 10 around the same time you did because my software required it. It does seem the best way to avoid most of the problems: Microsoft has moved on to pulling its old tricks on the newest version, and there are more tools for modifying the old version. So I figure I'll switch to 11 or 12 when Microsoft is doing awful things with 13.