Retired Windows developer Dave Plummer explains the Windows TPM Trap that is rendering certain computers obsolete.

[GettinBetter]

I wonder about the control MS is planning for in the future. Seems you will only be allowed to load programes on your machine that MS say you can, same as Apple. I paid a lot of money for my hardware, and I'd like to do what the hell I please to do with it.



This won't stop me changing to Linux after Win10.

Dave explains important steps you should take before the Windows 10 end of life so you don't wind up stranded!

Not to mention MS is locking your hardrive (to current machine) using Bitlocker encryption without the users consent.

Take care all.

 

[Greasytrucker]

I wonder about the control MS is planning for in the future. Seems you will only be allowed to load programes on your machine that MS say you can, same as Apple. I paid a lot of money for my hardware, and I'd like to do what the hell I please to do with it.



This won't stop me changing to Linux after Win10.

Dave explains important steps you should take before the Windows 10 end of life so you don't wind up stranded!

Not to mention MS is locking your hardrive (to current machine) using Bitlocker encryption without the users consent.

Take care all.

Windows 10 is the last i’ll be using i think, once it said my hardware wasn’t compatible I wasn’t interested. Too much AI shite etc on the latest tech for me, and I’m only 48! Never used Linux but certainly sounds appealing when you read up on it

 

[GettinBetter]

... Never used Linux but certainly sounds appealing when you read up on it...

It's the TPM module that worries me. It's the 'boiling the frog' routine, slow incremental changes that nobody notices till it's too late, and they have complete control of your machine, and what you put on it, god only knows what info and personal data they are extracting without your knowledge.

I will stay with Win10 (for work) untill one of their dodgy updates renders my OS unusable, Not worried about security as I use a third party 'paid for' app on all my devices (Eset Security Suite). When installed it disables all Windows stuff. Windows has historically been crap at security, dedicated professionally reviewed paid apps have always been far superior.

But for personal use Linux is defo the way for me to go. I've used it before, and was amazed how easy it was to setup, runs and looks very similar to window with the close minimise buttons on the left as opposed to the right (I'm sure you can customise that though), but demanding almost no personal information.
My biggest concern is my motion flight simulator, as I've bought MSFS2000 which I may have to ditch, and just use DCS World, and a few others that have Linux options.

I already use many progs that have no affilliation with MS. i.e. Thunderbird for email, Firefox for surfing, Ultraedit for plain text files, and Open Office for all office apps like spreadsheets, richtext files, presentation docs, VideoLAN for music, etc, and best of all they're all free. You can fill in all the auto fill parts for form filling if you want there's no pressure/obligation, it's just there if you want it. No doubt MS will try to get control of Linux, or outlaw it somehow, in the future

 

[SB1500]

I love Dave's channel. Been binging it at times in recent weeks.

I wouldn't worry too much about TPM. It's been on work computers for years. The community has come up with a work around to install W11 on 'unsupported' machines.

I'm in the process of leaving Apple for the first time in 16 years and coming back to Windows and all things Microsoft. I tried Linux (Ubuntu) and I use it extensively at work these days, but as far as open source software goes, I'm always blown away by just how good everything is for free and from the community. It looks as good on the surface. However, in my experience, when you start using it to do work... it does the job - and it does it fine. But many of the continuous little quality of life improvements, intuitive-ness we're used to are just outright completely missing. They are the fruits of a constant, highly-funded marketable product for sale and for me anyway, I'm too used to them. It's not that I couldn't learn the work arounds - it's that the time cost and compromises in the interim (and the incompatibility with a world that uses Microsoft/Google/Apple stuff) is too much to stomach.

We take it for granted, but there's a lot of consistency on the Mac and Windows... between something like Microsoft Word and even third party software that is a 'good citizen' - shares most of the keyboard shortcuts, the paradigms like drag and drop or sharing links or saving to the cloud... Same on the Mac (as seamless as it gets in fact!). But on Linux, you'll get some apps (very good ones) that are modern, and smart and quirky. Then you'll use another well respected app but it's like a relic from the 2010s or 2000s, still a good app, but maybe doesn't work the same way, shortcuts mapped totally differently, not bad but different. Harder to build a mental sort of muscle memory between them like you can on Apple / MS platforms. I love Thunderbird, but tell me that's not how every desktop mail client looked in the late 2000s / early 2010s! I like Firefox too, used to use it before the days of Chrome and eventual conversion to the cult of Apple... but these days I'm not so fussed on Mozilla, the maker, they seem nearly as commercialised and data-snoopy as Microsoft at times.

If my technology doesn't work, then I tend to metaphorically 'slam my fist on the desk and demand a solution'...or a refund. With Microsoft or Apple they have people there usually instantly to assist when needed, and if they can't, they refund it or do something. They can arrange express (or in site) fixes for physical issues, Apple in particular just send you out a brand new device in the post and you send back your old one, usually costs nothing. Can't beat that, right? Versus, small companies that make Linux hardware (really cool stuff) but they can't always find parts, or get the thing back and back to me fast enough. I'm no stranger to taking a screwdriver to my tech (not that Apple has really left much room for it in recent years) or sorting these things myself and I'd love to spend my hours doing that. But in a world where there's real work or learning to be done... and only 24 hours in a day, you've gotta understand why we give money to and put up with Windows (and even Apple for most people).

Tl;dr - Linux and open source is cool, you ditch the problems with Microsoft. But you lose a lot of things that just work as you expect them to, too.

Oh, on flight sim, you can emulate Windows games on Linux now pretty well!!! Definitely don't leave your games behind, Linux may just over take Windows in gaming in the coming decade.

 

[ZaphodB]

Not to mention MS is locking your hardrive (to current machine) using Bitlocker encryption without the users consent.

You can unlock bitlocker and open up your drive again. (I've done it once before on a drive I'd accidentally locked)
I didn't know they were forcing it on you without permission

<goes off to check bitlocker status>

Cool , my current PC drive is not bitlocked