Quote from: Done with PC gaming on Yesterday at 14:53:38Did I forget to mention how it's almost impossible to easily stop windows 11 home (literally what is preinstalled on 98% of laptops out there by oems) from force updating and restarting without paying Microsoft more to upgrade to win pro version?
Officially, Windows is paid, but in reality no one is stopping you from installing the Pro version that comes from the factory in parallel with W11Home. By the way, W11 LTSC will be released in the fall, which means that M$ has finally decided that W11 has gone from beta to the final version, debugged with the money of stupid ordinary hamsters, who were its beta testers at their own expense... =)
I personally tested all versions and I can say for sure that W11 (latest build from December 2023) is much slower in response than even W10, not to mention W7, etc.
But they leave us no choice.
Is everyone aware that Google deliberately disabled VP9/AV1 hardware acceleration through the old API layer in LTSC 1809 from about version 100 of Chrome? But in LTSC 2021 everything works with the same versions of video drivers and the same versions of VP9/AV1 wrappers on VLD decoders from the M$ store. The problem is that it is 1809 that is officially supported until 2029, and LTSC 2021 only until 2026, like LTSB 2016. W10 support for other versions ends in the fall of 2025... I see in this the deliberate intent of Google and M$, a conspiracy to displace users from version LTSC 1809 with 10 years of support. Those. by disabling hardware acceleration in the most common browser and supported by websites, Chrome (Chromium), Google, by agreement with M$, is displacing users since 1809. The funny thing is that FF still uses the old method of hardware decoding and everything works there, but unfortunately, FF there are big problems with smoothness and Google deliberately, as everyone knows, blocks the normal operation of other people's browsers on YouTube. Therefore, we have no choice....either Chrome or nothing.
Remember how 14 years ago, Intel's sneaky collusion with M$ squeezed out users from XP in the same way when it was in its heyday? Then the scoundrels at Intel deliberately disabled the decoding layer via DXVA under XP in their drivers for the first Core I (Arrandale), but everything worked extremely sluggishly (and then SSDs were a rarity and, in general, a luxury then W7 when working with HDDs.
The history of meanness repeats itself - we are gradually being squeezed out using such hidden methods to new versions of the OS, where everything is done for interesting corporations.
At the same time, the "security" of all versions of Windows (which they constantly emphasize to fools as the need for new versions of the OS) was and remains a clownery.