Windows 10 is ending support in October, prevent e-waste, switch to Linux
End of 10
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
Everybody on Lemmy thinking Windows 10 users have to choose among buying a new PC, switching to Linux, or waiting for Microsoft to blink, but six bucks and my right nut says the overwhelming majority aren't going to do squat when their machine stops updating.
If anything, a lot of people will take it as a blessing, Microsoft is very insistent on their updating process
It might make windows 10 briefly the best windows.
I'm stuck using certain software that doesn't run on Linux, so I'm stuck using 10 until the end of time I guess.
It's probably time to move my Win7 laptop to Linux though.
You can use 0patch to continue to get security updates.
move my Win7 laptop to Linux though.
Do you have a moment to talk about our lords and saviours, Linus and RMS?
I still expect Microsoft to further pussy out
I saw this the other day and it looked like a cool project to help people migrate.
On the flip side of this, can people tell me which models are "e-waste" but are actually powerful when you pop Linux onto them? It'd be nice to scoop up some deals on eBay.
I can give you some easy tips for this.
I saw a really cool project showcase yesterday: Operese. I'm not quite sure how it works, but it installs Kubuntu directly in Windows, and after a reboot, instead of starting Windows, you boot into Kubuntu with all your user files copied over from Windows.
guess it will -create a partition -deploy an kubuntu image on it -copy user files over
the hard part here is having a spare disk/spare disk space where you can deploy. and maybe getting it to boot into grub directly, because your bios will be pointing to windows
You just need to recommend an easy to use Distro. So no Archlinux. And Nobara which I use is rather middle difficulty.
honestly, and this is a hill i'm willing to die on, the distro really doesn't matter it's the DE that's the deal breaker.
You could have something like CachyOS, which is Arch, that is painfully easy to install. you can choose your DE, hell even your shell, now from the gui installer. It's noob friendly. I've seen more people online have more issues trying to update Ubuntu than Arch. Hell I rarely read of any Fedora issues when compared to Ubuntu and Mint.
Honestly it doesn't matter the distro. as long as it can install KDE Plasma which is THE defacto noob friendly DE then it's fine. if it's the default DE, even better.
However what I have experienced is that what people on the fediverse claim is easy isn't necessarily easy for the average joe. Basically, most people who have no clue about IT expect stuff to work out of the box.
I agree that the average user will notice the DE more than the distro, but isn't Cinnamon pretty easy as well?
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I look forward to companies dumping a bunch of cheap and powerful mini-PCs on the market. I want to play around with a home server.
If you have a local college, get on their surplus mailing list.
How cheap have you seen the pcs go for?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the end of w10 support only affecting Windows home users, at least for now? E.g enterprise and other licences will still get support?
Yeah. I switched to an IoT version of Windows 10 that's going to get security updates until 2032. (I have a Windows machine I still use for a certain piece of proprietary software.)