For me Windows XP died the moment my banks stopped allowing me to login using the latest browser that it could use, which was FireFox 52ESR.
Actually, Windows XP isn't really dead. I still have machines that came from that era. I keep them to run old school games as I really hate to dig around for solutions to make them work on the newer versions of Windows.
Anyways, the story of how I defeated Windows 11:
My daily beater laptop that ran Windows XP as the primary OS recently died and I needed a replacement fast. So off I went to buy a laptop from Amazon that came with Windows 11.
Me being a die hard Windows XP fan decided it was possible to tame the abominations Microsoft made after version 8.1!!
Here's what I did:
1. When I booted up Windows 11 for the first time, it asked me to connect to the internet and login to my Microsoft account. Sorry MS, you will never know the password to my router and I shall never associate my machine with any particular MS account. So I pressed shift+F10 and terminated one system task. I was then able to complete Windows setup without entering my WiFi password or MS account info.
2. I immediately shrank some disk space, created a blank/unformatted partition. I then installed Deepin OS as a dual boot. I was surprised how easy it was to dual boot Windows with Linux. All I needed was one free partition. Didn't even need to format it under Windows. The Deepin setup menu took care of everything for me.
3. Went back to Windows 11 and disabled my WiFi card so that abomination of an OS never finds a way to ping mined data back to mothership or sneakily connect to some free WiFi access point to force updates on me.
All in all Windows 11 never even saw 1 second connected to the internet all the time I've had this new laptop so far. I do everything online thru Deepin OS, only go back to fully offline Windows if I need to use a Windows-only software. The days when Windows truly became popular (ie. Windows 3.1) people didn't even have internet connection. I now treat my Windows 11 like 3.1, not allowed to access the internet ever.
There is life after XP. It's not Windows, but I am still effectively able to tame the OS (Deepin) according to my whims and desires. The only reasons I don't like Windows 11 because of 1. Spying on me and 2. Forced updates. Once I found a solution that does neither, can kick Windows to the curbside!
Actually, Windows XP isn't really dead. I still have machines that came from that era. I keep them to run old school games as I really hate to dig around for solutions to make them work on the newer versions of Windows.
Anyways, the story of how I defeated Windows 11:
My daily beater laptop that ran Windows XP as the primary OS recently died and I needed a replacement fast. So off I went to buy a laptop from Amazon that came with Windows 11.
Me being a die hard Windows XP fan decided it was possible to tame the abominations Microsoft made after version 8.1!!
Here's what I did:
1. When I booted up Windows 11 for the first time, it asked me to connect to the internet and login to my Microsoft account. Sorry MS, you will never know the password to my router and I shall never associate my machine with any particular MS account. So I pressed shift+F10 and terminated one system task. I was then able to complete Windows setup without entering my WiFi password or MS account info.
2. I immediately shrank some disk space, created a blank/unformatted partition. I then installed Deepin OS as a dual boot. I was surprised how easy it was to dual boot Windows with Linux. All I needed was one free partition. Didn't even need to format it under Windows. The Deepin setup menu took care of everything for me.
3. Went back to Windows 11 and disabled my WiFi card so that abomination of an OS never finds a way to ping mined data back to mothership or sneakily connect to some free WiFi access point to force updates on me.
All in all Windows 11 never even saw 1 second connected to the internet all the time I've had this new laptop so far. I do everything online thru Deepin OS, only go back to fully offline Windows if I need to use a Windows-only software. The days when Windows truly became popular (ie. Windows 3.1) people didn't even have internet connection. I now treat my Windows 11 like 3.1, not allowed to access the internet ever.
There is life after XP. It's not Windows, but I am still effectively able to tame the OS (Deepin) according to my whims and desires. The only reasons I don't like Windows 11 because of 1. Spying on me and 2. Forced updates. Once I found a solution that does neither, can kick Windows to the curbside!