The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
I too have been a victim of this and it’s the ultimate suck in science. Instrument companies should be required to develop their control software for stable versions of Linux.
Why the fuck are you selling us a standard Win11 tablet for your program that simply runs in a browser? Why in the world do you leave in all the bloatware and other baggage when we are paying 10s or 100s of thousands for something that we just need to run reliably? I will never understand. It’s like they want us to have a bad time.
I learned your ago to disconnect devices in my lab run by computers from the web. They literally last forever without updates.
More than once, Microsoft would brick $800,000 microscopes by pushing an update even with updates turned off.
I too have been a victim of this and it’s the ultimate suck in science. Instrument companies should be required to develop their control software for stable versions of Linux.
Why the fuck are you selling us a standard Win11 tablet for your program that simply runs in a browser? Why in the world do you leave in all the bloatware and other baggage when we are paying 10s or 100s of thousands for something that we just need to run reliably? I will never understand. It’s like they want us to have a bad time.