Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux and the AUR.
No.
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8.1. That’s different. It was also IIRC the last Windows version without any sort of AI, enforced telemetry or any of that crap.
the only sane windows left
Windows 8.1 exists.
2·5 days agoAh, a systemd user I see!
sysvinit and OpenRC are just so much better.
I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.