Its a shame that Windows10 is coming to its end...

I've two 1050ti in two different machines. One is just to give a machine a HDMI port. Its my file server. The other is a in a kids game machine but it has no tmp either. Mostly used for strategy games. Guess something cheap could replace it.
 
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Why ? It will still work just fine … you’ll just not get the latest drivers, but so what? The last revision will be stable with a lot of the bugs ironed out.

Even then, on a fresh install windows itself downloads and installs basic whql drivers for nvidia cards without you needing to install any nvidia specific stuff. Why change?
 
Donnie Fisher said:
Why ? It will still work just fine … you’ll just not get the latest drivers, but so what? The last revision will be stable with a lot of the bugs ironed out.

Even then, on a fresh install windows itself downloads and installs basic whql drivers for nvidia cards without you needing to install any nvidia specific stuff. Why change?
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My own machine is reaching the point where most things need replacing before they either die of old age or go pop.
 
I'm not looking forward to the middle of October, not me personally. I've seen W 3.1/95/95se/98/I Skipped ME, From what I hear I'm glad I did/XP/Vista :mad:/7/ 8 :(/ 10 & Now W11 dual boot with linux for a while, both are now on separate rigs.
Reason I'm not looking forward is Dad. At 86 he doesn't like change. With every release of Windows he gets confused on doing what he wants to do on a PC, as his 'IT Manager'. I have to show him or do a PC task for him as its easier for me, but its difficult for him at his age to learn a new OS.
 
Grimley said:
Reason I'm not looking forward is Dad. At 86 he doesn't like change. With every release of Windows he gets confused on doing what he wants to do on a PC, as his 'IT Manager'. I have to show him or do a PC task for him as its easier for me, but its difficult for him at his age to learn a new OS.
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Same with my mum.

Being the free IT helpdesk, calming her down and telling her she's not, in actual fact, broken the internet by misplacing a folder I'm not sure how W11 will go.

I'm moving full-time to Linux by October, I really can't face getting her on that. She's also adverse to change and I think W11 will be hard enough for her.
 
Similar story here. I'm prepping my old (i7 6700K) pc to hand down to mum (replacing i7 920). She's so intimidated by tech it was difficult to even get her to agree to accept a free upgrade, think she would rather have kept using Win 10 without updates for the rest of her life. She'll be visiting me and taking it home with her, there's a 50/50 chance she gets home and is too scared to set it up.
 
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I think you can install windows 10 ltsc iot over a regular 10 install so nothing has to be reinstalled. Then you don't need to worry about change confusing your parents until 2032.
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The issue with that is getting a license for it as its for businesses only and not for home users.
 
I REALLY do wish that they would stop sending me that full page message that Windows 10 is coming to an end. I can't stop it, by choice it seems.
The point being is, when it happens on my Media server, remote in the loft, it will then prevent access to the PC. I can no longer ping it, nor will RDC work. I have to go into the loft, move lots of stuff out in front of it, and switch on its monitor to then get rid of that message. Only then does the PC become responsive again and the media can be shared, along with RDC etc working.

Grrrrrrrr.
 
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Vimes said:
I REALLY do wish that they would stop sending me that full page message that Windows 10 is coming to an end. I can't stop it, by choice it seems.
The point being is, when it happens on my Media server, remote in the loft, it will then prevent access to the PC. I can no longer ping it, nor will RDC work. I have to go into the loft, move lots of stuff out in front of it, and switch on its monitor to then get rid of that message. Only then does the PC become responsive again and the media can be shared, along with RDC etc working.

Grrrrrrrr.
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Move your media server to a linux based OS with no desktop environment. E.g. Ubuntu Server. Access via SSH. The thought of running Windows for those duties fills me with anxiety. Yes, there's a learning curve but if you like tech it's fun and the skills are really useful.
 
alex24 said:
Move your media server to a linux based OS with no desktop environment. E.g. Ubuntu Server. Access via SSH. The thought of running Windows for those duties fills me with anxiety. Yes, there's a learning curve but if you like tech it's fun and the skills are really useful.
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Genuinely, I know that you mean well.

With decades of Windows use, since Windows 3, not 3.1, I am kinda familiar with using not always the best options, but the ones that I am able to operate and service without much thought, until situations like this occur.
It is not the attraction of Linux, but more the dissatisfaction of this issue with Windows 10, regarding that occasional full screen window. Up to that point the N54L has had Windows 10, same install, since around 2015. So ten years of the same build, running great, as a media server is not bad. It just works.

At some point I'll need to do more than consider bringing out to play an old Dell PowerEdge T110 II server that is still boxed, to try Linux on that..........................................Perhaps I need to overcome my Linux aversion at this point.


Then again, if it could be installed over the top of Windows 10 and keep the settings...........................................LTSC. :)

Thanks
 
I'm the one wandering into a Windows thread to promote another OS, so I get it...! I've been a user of Windows since 95/98 days so it's a comfort zone for me too actually. However Linux was worth the effort to learn in my experience. What actually pushed me off Windows entirely was the W10 requirement for TPM, so I just gave it a go then never looked back tbh. Since, then advancements in Linux gaming and building my technical knowledge as well as Microsoft business practices and approach have just further given me confidence this is a better way. So that's my story. Yes, there's a few legacy applications and games I'd like to get working that somehow still function on latest Windows 20 years later (one of the actual benefits of Windows - backwards compatibility) but on balance it's worth it.
 
That's fine, for me anyway :)

Each time in the past, with Ubuntu or Mint, et al, it seemed to start reasonably and then at some point quickly spiral down , more of a termite mound than a rabbit hole, of despair when one thing went wrong. It went from a sort of GUI experience to that of seemingly typing hieroglyphics that the most ardent of alchemists would have found obscuring. The veneer of ease of use was, possibly still is, somewhat thin and mystifying.

I keep thinking, well at times that I describe, that I should consider making that leap again, it has never ended well though.

At least if I get a spare non essential machine up and running I can evaluate it better.
 
I don't really notice any difference between 10 and 11. The 'show more options' on right click, and task bar aligned differently is about all I can think of.
 
alex24 said:
Move your media server to a linux based OS with no desktop environment. E.g. Ubuntu Server. Access via SSH. The thought of running Windows for those duties fills me with anxiety. Yes, there's a learning curve but if you like tech it's fun and the skills are really useful.
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I use Unraid for this. Amazing.
 
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