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As Microsoft announces to stop support for windows 10 has anyone experience with using OG on windows 11?

Everything works

As for games - it works fine
As for management (your privacy) - why do they offer free "upgrades"? (you can't turn off some options)
As for old equipment (printers, scanners) - you will encounter problems --> even if the manufacturer provides new software --> the system will prefer its (universal) --> you may lose some of the available functions --> I am writing this using the example of the HP LaserJet printer (fighting for a dedicated driver every time)
--> I am writing this using the example of the HP ScanJet photo scanner (does not support photographic films - it worked in early versions of Win 10)

The last flexible system was Win 7!

All "free" system upgrades to 10, 11 have hidden costs
Nobody gives anything for free in business

Dimitris GR wrote: ↑2025-01-26 10:11, Sunday Everything works

... for me too

What happens if I keep win10 on my desktop PC?
My old laptops use win7 and they still run without problems.

Nothing, only after a few time you have no support from microsoft.

I can tell you how it was when Win 7 was no longer supported

First notifications that the system is not supported, then security messages
Not much later, information from installed applications
"Change the system because it cannot be updated" - e.g. browser
Next - "update the system to Win10 or 11 - because we do not provide you with security"
Later still - antivirus, browsers, other utility programs - no possibility of updating - change the operating system

Of course nothing happened
However, every time I turned on the browser, I went through the messages, when I turned on other programs - I went through the messages --> further limitation of displaying correctly pages (which were written for the new version of the browser)

After a year I had enough of this collusion
I bought a small computer with the 11Pro system
I left the old computer --> I added 2 used 1TB drives (I made an archive and backup copies)

sympatyk wrote: ↑2025-01-26 18:02, Sunday I can tell you how it was when Win 7 was no longer supported

I still have a computer running Win7, but it is not connected to Internet (never was, actually, it's a rendering computer).
Not being able to talk to the mothership, it never noticed that its support ended...


The laptop I bought 3 years ago came with Win11, but I managed to make it behave, mostly with "OOShutUp10", which is an easy point & click solution for turning off most of the privacy invasion. That's what I use for OG nowadays.

That been said my main workhorse is Linux. Linux is way more user-friendly than Win10/11 (and safer!), the only drawback is that some programs are tied to Windows (like OG)... But usually you can run them nevertheless using Wine (a Windows emulator).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-In8SURsI

That's how I have my laptop set up (WIN 10 & Mint).
I'll be swapping my desktop to this dual boot thing too (WIN 11 & soon Mint as well).

I'm swapping because my WIN 11 has a 70 GB system folder, and Linux Mint Cinnamon (the version of Mint with the highest level of the GUI) eats up less than 4 GB (four, not forty).
Not to mention just how big a pain it is to keep Windows from messing with your system for you, and Linux just does what you tell it to do and nothing more.

I had it on the laptop for a few months already and I'm happy. Runs Firefox by default, I changed to the Brave browser, it has equivalent of paint and office and other utility software. Did not set up Steam, but I know Steam has a Linux version.
I did set up JMRI (Java Model Railroad Interface), which has a Linux version, so it runs on native support.

Since this is the OG forum...
Any good tutorials how to get compatibility of Open General on Linux?
If this would work, I think we'd get some new players. It's a nerdy game and Linux is still a nerdy system (even though it's getting more popular as it's getting more user friendly, which drives more popularity).

Did you try on Zorin OS yet? Your setup sounds similar.

I'm happy on Mint on the laptop.
Disclaimer - still did not get around to swapping systems on the big PC yet.