It’s almost like the good ol’ days of install fests and the like! ‘End of 10’ is an organization that’s making it easy for Windows 10 users with computers that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, to install Linux instead of sending good hardware to the landfill.
Just an FYI - you don’t have to throw away computers that can’t upgrade past Windows 10. They will keep working.
I recently virtualised an XP machine that had been running since time immemorial, and will continue to (virtually) do so.
Long story short, my Dad just got a new computer. (His old was was actually really old, but he could have used Linux.)
Anyway, I told him not to throw out the old computer and that I would take it. He was baffled that I would want it or could even do anything with it.
I am going to set it up as a backup server in the house for my parents and myself as it will be a nice way to have an offsite backup for free.
So many use cases! I’m giving an old NUC to a kid at work who’s learning Linux. Jesus, the kid bought a copy of Linux from “the best/most-famous hacker in the world!”. We had a come-to-Jesus talk about that horseshit.
Unbelievable. Linux sellers deserve the death penalty. /s (mostly…)
Never felt so much more in control than when ditching Windows and installing first Linux Mint and later Kubuntu. Gonna try Arch in the future to feel like a god and completely in control over what happens on my machine.
that trajectory leads to Antix to give you full control over every decision and then from there to debian or devuan because all that decision making is exhausting, can’t the machine just work and only update when there’s security patches?
Hopefully many more Windows refugees would embrace the Kingdom of Torvalds.
Im hearing proton is good for games?
Quick question. I have a studio pc running win 10, with dozens of audio and video projects. It’s basically impossible to transfer to Linux, macOs or even win 11 since it involves a ton of audio plugins, etc. and my projects would become unsable.
What does end of supports involve for me? I actually disable updates and a while back since it was sometimes screwing things up. My most recent projects are done either on my M1 mac (work thing) or my most recent.Linux station on Nobara. Should I be worried about anything? Should I disconnect my old studio pc from the internet to avoid it being fucked by microsoft?
You should back up your windows 10 pc as an image and use it as a virtual machine on the Mac or some other Linux environment. Once support stops nothing really bad would happen, besides security stuff and maybe perhaps some unexpected hugs. So you could just disconnect it from the internet too but the VM option isn’t reliant on the hardware which could go bad.
Intetesting, I didn’t thought of that. I’ll give it a try. If I can get an image to run in a VM to allow me to access archived project when needed, that would be the perfect solution. I’m just worried about all the plugins activation, etc. Hopefully it will work. Thanks!
Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last Windows? I 'member.
They didn’t. They said it was the last version of windows you’d ever need.
I’m doing my part!
I’ve loaded Mint on my prime system and a laptop, another laptop with Fedora, Manjaro on another main system I test with and EndeavorOS on all my media systems. I’ve also loaded about 8-10 other distros on Proxmox to play/test with.
Where I had doubts on whether I needed anything off of the old MS system, I P2V’ed the OS and spool it up on Proxmox if needed to review any history within the OS/browser.
I still have a couple of W10 VMs lingering and a Windows server. I’ll “upgrade” the workstation VMs to W11 (and shut them down) since I have the license and I can see sometimes having to use Windows for whatever dumb reasons. I’ll leave the Windows server for now to maintain the domain as that allows me to block telemetry with GPOs. I may tire of that at some point though as MS will further wane away on my network.
My summer task is to convert all my 'Arrr software over to Linux versions. Still on W10 there. Wasn’t sure which distro to go to for that…
Windows 10 users encountering this post: this sounds like a lot of work. I’ll just stick to windows 11.
Disabling all the dumb shit and ads on win11 is triple the work of switching to linux and learning to use it.
If you honestly believe that, this is another great example as to why people would stick to Windows 11.
Because they love spending hours and hours on removing bloatware? And hate having a clean, functional os? Yeah that is the last remaining use case of windows beyond proprietary apps.
Well, thanks for confirming you really do believe the memes lol.
idunno how you can have an another opinion after using both.
Because as someone who does use both, disabling Windows settings that arent great takes about 15 minutes.
If it takes you multiple hours, you’re really bad at using computers or something.
