Corelli_III@midwest.social to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago"i've always wondered if i could keep windows 10 after support ends..."midwest.socialimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squaresad_detective_man@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-23 days agoit’s actually amazing. okay well it’s a pity win, but it’s good also widows 10 IoT is still getting updates for another decade if anyone gives a shit
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoThe people who give a shit: former windows CE devs
minus-squaresad_detective_man@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoreally? I’m pretty ignorant, why would they? were they promised extended support that they didn’t get?
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIoT sort-of-kind-of replaced CE
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agono I mean piping a downloaded script to the interpreter
minus-squaremissfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 days agocurl | bash for the Windows crowd. honestly it’s exactly as secure as running a binary you downloaded from their website. no more, no less (since https.)
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoA little bit less because they could change it for one time. With binaries you could at least compare checksums.
minus-squaresad_detective_man@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agooh. yeah, problematic but it’s at least easy for end users
it’s actually amazing. okay well it’s a pity win, but it’s good
also widows 10 IoT is still getting updates for another decade if anyone gives a shit
The people who give a shit: former windows CE devs
really? I’m pretty ignorant, why would they? were they promised extended support that they didn’t get?
IoT sort-of-kind-of replaced CE
no I mean piping a downloaded script to the interpreter
curl | bashfor the Windows crowd.honestly it’s exactly as secure as running a binary you downloaded from their website. no more, no less (since https.)
A little bit less because they could change it for one time. With binaries you could at least compare checksums.
oh. yeah, problematic but it’s at least easy for end users