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CPU upgrades? What CPU's? Are the CPU's in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU's are?
Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?
What is the charge? Installing a CPU? A succulent x64 CPU? Gentlemen, this is supply side economics manifest!
And you sir, is your motherboard socket waiting to receive my CPU?
I guess I'm no longer ever going to play a video game that runs on Windows. At some point game developers need to realize that Linux is the future of gaming if Windows keeps pulling this shit.
That's what Proton is for.
I have 100 or so steam games. Each one that I've tried (around 20 so far), all of them work perfectly well on my Linux box.
Proton works great. I now play all my windows-"only" games on Linux.
Not out of principle. I'm just lazy. My coding laptop is always within reach and Proton works. The Windows laptop is, like, way over on the other side of the living room and I don't feel like spending the evening disabling more ad shit or ai shit or whatever they did to Windows since I used it last.
Me: Using 11 year old PC. Originally rjnning Windows 7. Now running ZorinOS.
I don't particularly like linux, but.....
looks at Windows 10...11.....now 12....
Yeah, fuck that dumpster fire.
However, newer processors with dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) reduce strain on cloud servers and GPUs. As a result, PCWorld believes that CPUs, including Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI chips that support 40 TOPS or more, will become mandatory
in other words, your pc will be doing ai shit for someone else's pc while you are idle
They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.
2026 even has newspeak in the form of bullshit like "unalive"
Y'know, if that's true… I can't afford a new computer. I just got one last year after almost a decade of using my last box. I was lucky that this one runs 11 - I'm not anti-Microsoft - I like Linux and Windows...... but I've been perfectly happy with 11 (maybe just lucky, but none of the problems I've heard others having).
But yeah, if this box won't run 12, I will be staying on 11 until I can't, and then that'll push me to Linux. I could switch now, jsut about, but a few little things that run better with Windows for me. But I could survive under Linux if I needed to.
Basically, I've never been a big Microsoft apologist, but man… that would kill it for me.
Not that they care. They care about corporate uses, not home users. Which is why you can find any number of ways to get your Windows for free these days. They gave up on the consumer market.
Lmfao Microslop stop trying to make Recall and Copilot and AI bullshittery happen. It’s not gonna happen.
Good luck with that shit.
So I've got a wacky conspiracy theory about this and all the hardware shortages, ai datacenters, etc. The tech companies are trying to position themselves for "cloud only computing devices" being the only affordable option for most people. The you'll own nothing and like it model.
Microsoft can do whatever. I'm not coming back.
'member when Windows 10 was supposed to be the final version of Windows? I 'member.
I'll have plenty of time to try it work, but I stop at 11 for personal use... long time coming but them putting a date on 12 means I now have my date to get off Windows altogether.
System76 makes nice Linux laptops.
