Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence : linux

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 13 points 7 hours ago

Even tho my pc can run windoes 11, still running linux on it.

[-] peetabix@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Me too. Bought a HP laptop made sure it was AMD. It came with win11, wiped it and installed Linux as soon as I got home.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

My PC has an NVIDIA card, will that be a problem?

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Nah, I have never major found problems with nvidia on linux especially wayland.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

It can be A Problem, but AS far AS i heard it usually isnt that much of a problem.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 7 hours ago

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Sensational.

[-] gbin@lemmy.ca 62 points 12 hours ago

Didn't they say at one point that windows 10 would be the last windows version as they are switching to a rolling release model?

[-] nuez_jr@lemm.ee 32 points 12 hours ago

That was just the tech weenies with their 'architecturally sound strategy' or whatever, before the business side ~~beat~~ talked some sense into them.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Which MS didn't deny until they announced they were working on Win 11.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

Well, they actually always had an End-of-Life date slated for 2025. But yeah, it wasn't clear, if that was there just in case, or if they never expected to go through with what they'd been telling people.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

I did that before Win 10 even came out.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 11 hours ago

Sometimes the best thing to do to a Window is leave it closed, forever.

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

I can't. I use AutoCAD in my side hustle...

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Me too, except Rhino/Grasshopper. Thus, I dual-boot.

[-] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Glad to hear about 0patch being an option.

[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -26 points 9 hours ago

Use Windows 11

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 8 points 7 hours ago

Here we're talking about PCs that can't officially run Windows 11.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 hours ago

Please don't, unless there is absolutely no other possible option.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 6 hours ago

You should use it over Windows 10 at this point. The timer on Windows 10 is ticking.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago

I use it at work. It sucks so much worse then 10. I fucking hate that OS so much. It's worse than 8. Some of the problems I have may be configurable on a personal PC but the fact that these things were decided as the "default" doesn't give me any confidence in the people making design decisions at Microsoft.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Windows 10 is going EOL. You either move to 11 or switch to something else like Linux. There is no other option

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, there are other options but they are not good ones. Overall, I agree. You're just getting downvotes because lemmings have a hater boner for anything M$, not because you're wrong.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

Too late.

Have been on the dark side for near 20 years. And I'm not going back.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

no thanks.

I would rather put all my private data at risk of hackers than put all my private data at risk of corporate interests.

at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back. what's Microsoft's excuse?