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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap::As Windows 10 end of life approaches, analysts are concerned that millions of devices will be scrapped due to incompatibility

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[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or upgrade to OS that gaben chosen

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If only it ran the software and hardware I use...

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Curious what you're using. Ms office kinda sucked but LibreOffice works incredibly well, and Adobe products last I tried (years ago) sucked. But gimp and DaVinci resolve work great. Most of my games run absolutely fine. For everything else you just need a web browser and those have worked great always.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wine or emulation? When I had to use Windows for work I used WSL to run my tooling and didn't notice any performance degradation. Does it apply too vice versa?

Although I'm with you on the hardware side. Because I have an Nvidia card my Linux install has been relegated for personal projects only. I already have a workstation supplied by my employer for work.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Sadly the things I need don't work in Wine, Proton etc. I'm looking into running a Windows KVM with hardware pass through, but it's quite the project, and requires a second GPU that I don't have.

[–] Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or simply use an easy workaround to disable the tpm check and set up an offline account. I literally have win11 running on an old T460.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anything you need to do beyond Rufus or the like for installation? How did activation, auto updates, etc work?

[–] Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, you don't need anything else. Activation works the same if you log into your ms account or you can simply use https://massgrave.dev/ . I'm pretty sure there's a way to get your key and enter it manually but I haven't tried that yet.