Yupp, Linux it is
Get a new OS for free for your PC.
Or I could switch to Linux…
OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.
I will not be upgrading to W11. Some time between now and when they sunset W10 I will be switching to Linux.
Im sure Win10 will get unofficial patching etc for some time yet
True but you really shouldn’t rely on that. If you must use Windows 10 you can always air gap it
PCs that can’t run Windows 11 are valuable to people who don’t want to wake up one morning and find they’ve been upgraded against their will.
Just run windows 3.1 dual booted with Linux mint. Easily the most rational decision.
Humm, I installed Windows 11 on a really old Dell laptop (clean install). I’m sure it was not HW supported but it installed fine. I may have had to click something like, " Yeah I know it doesn’t meet the specs"; but otherwise fine.
No, I don’t like Windows but it’s what my partner needed at the time.
I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
I’ll just keep running my Win 7/Ubuntu dual boot machine tyvm
I hope you don’t connect Windows 7 to the internet…
It is fine as long as it is air gapped properly. It also might be fine on its own vlan as long as you don’t go browsing the internet.
This isn’t news, it’s just the standard notice that Microsoft isn’t going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.
I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…
This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.
Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.
Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.
You make it sound like an older gaming rig wasn’t powerful enough to run win 11. It’s not about the older hardware being too weak, it’s about enforcing their TPM bullshit with which they aim to gradually create an apple style walled garden where they control what you can do with your machine.
idk, sounds like an ad for Linux to me
FTFY
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After about 10 hours of reading and video watching, it seems pretty unanimous that linux mint with cinnamon is the easiest one to use and everything else is hobbyist stuff.
Decent choice, but I massively disagree with the last 6 words
Windows isn’t even that good. The OS is kind of a huge mess. It has two unfortunate advantages though: it’s the default on many devices, and (because of that) software availability is best. I wish it wasn’t the case.
It also has the benefit of inertia. Everyone knows Microsoft from either school or marketing. They are the standard and anyone else has to fight decades of standards. It also helps that they historically created the best tools for easily managing fleets on machines. Now days they are pushing everyone to Azure but before they had the best tools to build your business on. It was so convenient to have Windows server with all the server stuff like AD, SQL and IIS. They basically were they only well known option until the last 5-10 years.
PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used
python exists. dont subject yourself to vendor lock-in.
I just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on.
As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don’t let personal preference put you at risk.
I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
Because MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it’s not already a huge target?
Compared to not getting any patches at all? That doesn’t seem like a good justification for staying on something EOL.
I stayed on XP until some game I wanted didn’t work (by that time, 7 was out), I stayed on 7 until some game I wanted didn’t work (by that time, 10 was out). Nothing bad happened to me. I’ll take my chances. At least until I find the time to get into Linux, whenever that may be.
One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
looks at self
How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
They said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
I hope you are joking…
just give contractors the option to sell their pcs without your bloatware for a hundred bucks cheaper or something
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