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With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?

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[–] Crow@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I’ve had windows 10 tell me I can’t upgrade to windows 11 because my SSD was formatted incorrectly even though it had always ran windows 10 fine. None of this was properly explained to me or how to fix it. By the time I finally got it working I didn’t even want windows 11.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

I guess I should hold off on upstaging my systems. There are going to be a lot of deals.

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

That's what I'm gonna do with my Windows 10 gaming machine. It's been working just fine since I bought it in 2016.

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Many companies still use Windows XP, so...

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[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Windows 7 or Linux would be fine, Windows 10 is hardly that bad

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[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My laptop is a cast off from a member of my staff who said it was too slow - a (dmidecode) - Product Name: HP 255 G6 Notebook PC. It now runs Arch (actually).

It previously slogged along with Win 10, Outlook n O365 n that. Now it does Libre Office, Evolution and much more. I use KDE, which isn't known for a light touch on the resources. I also do light CAD and other stuff.

My office desktop is even older - it was a customer cast off, due to be skipped around six years ago. I did slap a SSD into it and I think I upped the RAM to 8GB. Its a (ssh, dmidecode): Product Name: Lenovo H330 and the BIOS is dated from 2012! I run two 23" screens off it and again, it runs Arch (actually) and KDE for pretty stuff. I run containers on it - at the moment a test Vikunja instance. I have apache, nginx and caddy fronting various experiments backed up with postgres and mariadb.

Both devices are "domain joined" and I auth to Exchange via Kerberos, via Samba winbind. File access (drive letters for the Windows mindset) is currently via autofs. I have a project on at a member of staff's request to switch from Windows to Linux. I'm going to take my time and get it right. My current thinking is the Fedora KDE spin and this: Closed In Directory

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