Are we at the Mercy of Greed?

[3Deep]

 So my win10 is no longer supported we already upgraded the office computers to win11 last year but I did not upgrade my art computer, fear that the upgrade would cause some of my favorite programs not to work so I enrolled in the carryover program for win10 upgrades which last until next year.  I know some upgrades are needed and thing's tend to move pretty fast but dang they just keep reaching in our pockets, my son told me last night that his cell phone is going to be EOL next year, so that tells me they are forcing us to upgrade whether we want to or not....so what do you think is it greed or necessity.

[ebscreen]

Both. It's understandable that they will want to sell more product, and don't want to support every old piece of hardware under the sun at each version.

What is not understandable though is that each new version is laughably worse than the previous, and now includes increasingly more paid advertising
in the OS itself. We bought touchscreen AIO's for the presses that came with 11 installed and after five minutes of not being able to access driver settings
I promptly ripped that pile of garbage out and installed 10 which in itself is a compromise. Windows peaked at 2000.

Use Linux wherever possible.

[GraphicDisorder]

I mean its free upgrade if you are already on Windows 10, so its not exactly a cash grab but it definitely is a disruption.

It took me like 5 trys to get Win 11 installed on my rig at the shop, which is a i9 with 128gb of ram and a 4080 and over 20tb of hard drive space and it just would not take for whatever reason. Finally got it to take Tuesday. Now other computers have went much easier but ya dumb over all.

I agree with EB on the ad's too, not a fan. Windows in general as you mentioned is getting worse and has for some time.

[Admiral]

I mean its free upgrade if you are already on Windows 10, so its not exactly a cash grab but it definitely is a disruption.

It took me like 5 trys to get Win 11 installed on my rig at the shop, which is a i9 with 128gb of ram and a 4080 and over 20tb of hard drive space and it just would not take for whatever reason. Finally got it to take Tuesday. Now other computers have went much easier but ya dumb over all.

I agree with EB on the ad's too, not a fan. Windows in general as you mentioned is getting worse and has for some time.

We upgraded all of ours but a few we cannot - they have barcoding software licenses and Windows 11 breaks them from working! That's a cash grab from the barcoding software companies though, not Windows....still sucks! I'm not dropping $2K again on such simple software...