I just installed Mint instead.
end of support for windows 10
beginning of support for linux mint
Yeah, my old desktop computer is getting turned into my first dedicated Linux machine and my current desktop isn’t getting updated to 11 until October 13th.
i just switched my laptop to mint and my desktop is next :) surprisingly so many “windows only” steam games run perfectly fine in linux
Except for some games with Anti-Cheat you can basically play anything that runs on Windows on Linux too
Haven’t had mine online for 4 years now and it still chugs along
Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 … what’s the issue?
Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.
Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading
i like how you made up a quote from the post.
It’s probably a non monitored email but I just replied, “I already switched to Linux because of this”
Holy shit they really just said, “throw it away”. Troglodytes!
The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*
Yeah I lost it when I saw this too. But, because I waited so long to switch to Linux, it’s to the point where I feel it has so much of what was lacking the last time I used it. Easily over ten years ago. Thank you to everyone who slogged through it to get here.
It took about a year of dual booting for me to finally feel confident using it, but now I’d never go back. It’s definitely not an overnight or weekend thing, learning the “Linux way”, but it’s worth it. It’s so much easier than it was even just 5 years ago, let alone 15
It depends on what you use your computer for, really. My partner isn’t very tech savvy and doesn’t use their computer for anything more than watching youtube and writing emails, so porting them directly to Ubuntu was super easy.
Ltsc iot win10 is supported for years to come 🏴☠️
BUY A COMPUTER ALREADY YOU CHEAP F*****!!!
This doesn’t fix the e-waste issue. Its not always about the price of a new machine.
I think owl meant to talk in Microsoft’s voice.
That moment when Microsoft tells people to throw away perfectly good working computers because they’re running Windows 10. When Windows 10 was just coming out or had just come out, Microsoft promised that Windows 10 would be the last OS of theirs, and there would only be updates. Also Microsoft is constantly sending messages to people running Windows 10 urging them to update.
I really wish there was something regulatory that could be done about this. There are millions of perfectly good fully working computers that are going to go in the fucking trash because of this. I understand the desire for a TPM on every machine. It makes sense in a way. But the pure environmental impact is just indefensible. All of those computers had a significant environmental footprint to build them and ship them and again to dispose of them plus building and shipping their replacements.
If Microsoft had such a hard-on for TPM, they should have worked with computer manufacturers to make some sort of retrofit system or way of easily determining if a TPM can be added to an existing computer
Guess my parents will continue and will use unsupported OS in the future. Maybe i install Linux to my mother, as a beta tester for the family when i go visit them in the summer.
They use it for basic everyday stuff like web browsing? I installed Linux on my mom’s aging laptop that she just used to sell stuff on eBay, browse, listen to music, back up photos, etc. Linux glides with ease on the machine when Windows slogged and she was able to understand the OS fine. Users today don’t really have to touch the command line at all unless they are doing something advanced. The GUI is just as easy to understand as Windows.
I don’t know. They maybe use only their phones now. I’m not sure. I better check before start anything. My father’s computer needs AutoCAD and office so probably gonna stay in Windows 10.
Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations
And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can’t support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?
A lot of components are scavenged for repairs. You’d be surprised how many POS systems run on XP still.
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