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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

the only sane windows left

Windows 8.1 exists.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    sane

    Windows 8

    ...are you ok? 🀨

    Edit: guess the .1 WAS significant! I sit corrected!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    8.1 was a very different os to 8. it was basically windows 10 light, all the features people were wowed by in 10 originated in 8 and were polished up in 8.1. it made the metro interface optional and brought back the start menu, improved performance, and was altogether a pretty pleasant experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Anything banned in China has some credibility with me, but it stopped receiving CPU compatibility updates in 2016 and after multiple extensions the last supported versions hit EOL in 2023.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    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.

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