I genuinely think Microsoft won't extend anything for Win10 unfortunately, no matter how many users cling to it. I'd love to be eating my words here, but I think Microsoft would rather pull all the marketing tricks out the book to force everyone into Win11.

I'm also a decade long Linux user and it drives me insane too. I'm happy to support someone if they have questions ABOUT Linux, but otherwise I don't shove it down their throat or really mention it. I nearly lost friends being the way so many other Linux users are and that was the changing point for me.

Is this article AI generated or something? There are constant grammatical errors throughout it and the pacing in general is difficult to follow. I'm struggling to actually read it, tripping up at each sentence. Just look at this paragraph.

"In recent years we have seen how many games have had a catastrophic launch, in many cases, caused by performance problems due to not being well optimized, but this has not been the only cause of these problems. And anti-piracy systems consume a large amount of our resources. PCmaking it very difficult to optimize a game when you have to take into account third-party software."

To play devils advocate, I'd say that the bigger issue is that Linus ended up in the terminal to start with, when he had no idea what he was doing in there.

If Linux is to hit the masses, then a beginner friendly distro should have the convention to install apps be by GUI instead of TUI, and guides should be updated to reflect this. That GUI-based installer should see that the "Yes, do as I say" prompt was triggered and in a clear and concise way, inform the user that important packages will be removed if they continue and they should not.

Effectively just having a much better interface for the user is what I'm saying.

Open for business

I love messing around with technology that's not old enough to be considered vintage, not new enough to be considered usable, just this odd in the middle obsolete stuff.

So you bet your ass I'm spending my weekend on the three old iPads I got from my work and finding ways to utilize them.

So that should it end up rolling onto it's roof it can still win the street race

Just looks like the original game setting with the same engine and problems that PvZ2 had. No thanks, the original game was where it was at and it's surprisingly replayable. I still have it on my iPad for when I want to have some downtime.

If you really want to be pedantic.. that's not even the Microsoft logo to begin with. Microsoft didn't use the Windows logo for their own company logo, at least during that time period.

Oh, and that's Windows Vista's logo anyway.

I don't know why I find it so surprising that Dropbox apparently has a Hacker News account, but I am mindblown that's a thing.

I thought HN would be way too niche for that to be a thing.

I'm so sick of hearing this and I use Linux on a daily basis

Installing Linux for us nerds is just something we know how to do. Asking a computer "normie" (which is, basically everyone else) to change their operating system is just not happening.

I couldn't imagine trying to step my mum through installing Linux if I stood next to her, and I wouldn't class her as stupid.

I maintain that for Linux to obtain mass adoption it either needs to be preinstalled or make it no different to install than a regular Windows program (which is damn near impossible).

It does, but it's no longer receiving security updates and therefore if there's any vulnerabilities, especially critical ones, they will not be patched.

If it remains offline you shouldn't really have much of a problem but it's advised that you move to a more modern OS sooner rather than later if that's online.