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im seriously about to get a linux only laptop. everything has ai shit in it
8.1 is... a very bad idea, unfortunately.
Yes, it's better than 8, but it's still An Absolute Shitshow.
10 like, Enterprise is the best Windows we have at the moment, and that's sad
yeh but right now i only have legit keys on-hand for 8 and 98, so... shrug? :P
Do 8 keys still get auto-upgraded to 10?
Probably not, huh?
(Anyway I wouldn't chance either of those, because basically 5 seconds online will get your machine absolutely invaded)
they did indeed sunset the whole "auto-upgrade to 10" thing, unfortunately.
so frustrating. wasn't there a group of people independently offering updates for earlier windows versions, or was i imagining things?
I... don't know.
There might still be some shenanigans possible by linking it to a microsoft account?
Maybe?
The problem with googling things these days is that you can't trust anything because of The "AI" Slop, but the consensus seems to be "you're rolling the dice, maybe, if it was activated"?
they stopped doing that last november, I wanna say
8.1 was the last time windows was good i think. i ran it until last december.
8.1 was awful before support got dropped, and it's only getting worse. if the Start Menu changes in 11 are too much for you, you're gonna have a real bad time with 8.1.
I've seen people that are pretty into 8.1 so it's pretty usable i think, no dx12 though (might be able to do dxvk for it?) and unsure if driver support is still super great
also if you don't have a 10 key genuinely just pirate it there's like no reason to pay for it ever there are cracks on github