I am currently using a legitimate copy of Windows 11, on the latest version. Just started getting this message after the latest update.

Considering I already have Linux and Mac as alternatives, if they actually pull my license they will just lose a lifelong customer. Their business decisions truly boggle the mind…

70 points

I used to run windows strictly for gaming. Over a year ago, I leapt from the flaming dumpster fire that is Microsoft, and I’ve never once wished that I hadn’t. Everything I need works on Linux.

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38 points

Just bought myself a steam deck. Gaming on Linux has never been so pleasant.

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9 points

Nice. OLED?

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8 points

Nah I went LCD 512 when it went on sale for 419 CAD.

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5 points

Like windows for all games or just anti cheat games cause Linux gaming support is pretty great on most games that are not outright hostile towards it like kernel level anti-cheat games you should give it a try.

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Anti cheat works fine nowadays, I’ve heard that the only problems are caused by devs/publishers that explicitly don’t allow their games to launch on Linux. e.g. Elden Ring and Apex Legends both use easy anticheat; the former boots just fine on Linux while the latter doesn’t work no matter what you do

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Yeah I don’t really notice as I stopped playing multi-player games after quake 3 and I just keep playing quake 2 and Doom

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Apex with EAC worked perfectly fine on Linux for the last 2 years, EA just decided to break it by replacing EAC with their own anti-cheat which is Windows only.

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23 points

99% of what I do is on Linux, I have one Windows partition I occasionally boot into to play games, it is and will remain Win10.

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I don’t even want windows on raw metal, so I have a virtual machine for work stuff

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@KazuchijouNo I had a virtual machine with GPU pass through that I was using for gaming but it got broken in the upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, it seems the UEFI bios provided in 24.04 does not work with GPU pass through, and I’ve yet to grab one off an OS where it works to replace it. So for now I’m dual-booting. Yea I agree, not all that comfortable with bare metal but Windows doesn’t seem to want to recognize ext4 so there is some security by accident there.

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4 points

There are cases where Windows messes up with booting, rendering Linux unable to boot. There’s even a recent thing involving GRUB that stopped booting up after some Windows update.

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I can’t think of any windows specific games I’ve payed for the last two years.

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@mesamunefire I started playing a game called Flyff back in 2004, though I’ve had to switch servers several times because admins have become incompetent or discontinued, I’ve played ever since, currently playing Insanity Flyff, level 311 character Nanook there. I’ve tried to get it to run under wine but it uses a root kit anti-cheat so won’t work under wine. This is soon going to be an issue with Win11 as well as they plan on disallowing root-kit anticheats soon. So maybe the game will adapt and then play under wine.

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Microsoft has discussed the possibility of creating user mode APIs for the monitoring that security programs like CrowdStrike could utilize instead of installing a kernel mode driver, but they haven’t said anything about locking down kernel mode drivers and I personally doubt they ever would.

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I use an emulator to play Windows 98 games. That’s the extent of what I use Windows for. Unfortunately Windows 98 is not compatible with the newest AAA multiplayer games or Steam.

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19 points

You think that’s fucked, I updated and I get this message now that won’t fuck off, stating I am both up to date, and missing updates at the same fucking time. Doesn’t matter how many times I check for updates, nothing new is found, nothing installs.

You can hope they won’t pull your license, but with this shit I’m just hoping they don’t brick my fucking system.

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8 points

That’s a classic Windows update error if I’ve ever seen one!

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2 points

No doubt, I’m floored.

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4 points

Who needs a license when there’s massgravel/MAS

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This message doesn’t say anything about the validity of your license, though. Or am I missing something?

I’m not up to date on Windows versions, but saying Win 11 has reached end of service is… unexpected?

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Seems like they resolved the issue - the license was legitimate.

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3 points

Maybe there’s a service pack?

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No it’s just a license breakage. It happens sometimes.

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That means you have an old version and need to run Windows update lol. Linux updates too. It says that every few weeks if you never reboot.

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You realize that is a screenshot of the Windows update tool, right? Lol… The purpose of this post is that it wouldn’t let me update, saying that my legitimate copy of Windows 11 was at end of service. The issue has since been resolved.

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saying that my legitimate copy of Windows 11 was at end of service

The screenshot says the version you use reached EoS and you need to update. There’s absolutely nothing about invalid licenses in the screenshot.

Good job for getting upvotes on a “haha winblows bad” troll post, I guess.

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I was frustrated in the moment because my valid license randomly said it reached end of service without reason. Not entirely sure this qualifies as a troll post… Search this problem, considering the thread on the Microsoft forums I wasn’t the only one with the issue.

Please reread your comment and what it was replying to, we said the same thing.

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I do realize it. I also think that if you need this much hand holding to use a computer that you’re goin to have the same problem with Linux.

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How does sharing a screenshot of an issue with Microsoft’s licensing server indicate that I need hand holding to use a computer? This is a Linux forum, if I had to guess every person here is on the high end of computer proficiency. It seems to me you are just a hostile person who likes to bully people online.

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