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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence (www.neowin.net)

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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Or you can send your windows 11 incompatible PCs to me, I'll take good care of them 😁

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] peetabix@lemmy.world 3 points 9 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 9 hours ago

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

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Its not a big problem like it is made out to be. There are some distros that don't ship nVidia drivers (and so you have to find the repo in your distro that does come contain it. I.e. Debian has an repo for it that isn't readily advertised) so some people have had a hard time. Some distros are just a checkbox this add nVidia. Some like SUSE/OpenSUSE have a repo that nVidia specifically hosts and maintains. So results vary, but I can say I have not had issues with nVidia

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Ty for clarifying. The one I'm interested in RN is Mint. From what I've heard and the information you've provided I suspect it won't be an issue.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] gbin@lemmy.ca 66 points 15 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 33 points 14 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 13 hours ago

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 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.