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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

So does anyone have a good strategy for transferring non giant things? Like I have a ton of unorganized pictures, documents, videos dating back to my 2009 1TB HDD that still works.

I think I want to run Debian mostly because I don't know any other build well. Well RHEL, but I want to keep it similar to the Steam Deck as I can

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Dump it into a NAS. Synology makes a decent 2-drive NAS that is easy to maintain. They have a decently long lifecycle and even upgrading hardware is usually just moving the drives to the new unit and powering it on.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

1TB is easy, a sata to usb 3.0 adapter is like $10 and will transfer all that data in a few hours. If you are more patient just setup the drive as shared in windows and transfer it over the network. I just copied about 7TB a few weeks ago to a new NAS over the network and I had it done over the weekend.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Keep it on the old 1TB hdd and buy a sata to usb cable or usb conversion kit?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to play games, then Debian isn't that good of a choice because of the outdated packages. I'd suggest getting a new SSD though. Your HDD is already pretty old and slow and could potentially fail soon, so you might as well get some fresh storage. Makes it easy to test distros too until you found something satisfactory, at which point you can transfer over your old data and eventually format your old HDD into some sort of backup drive I guess.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can play games on Debian if you install Steam from Flatpak. It installs everything it needs (drivers, Proton etc.) and just works.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about your kernel?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't need the latest kernel for games to work, a recent one will do.

Debian uses LTS kernel versions, which have very good support. Debian 12 runs kernel 6.1 which will be supported until the end of 2027.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

If you're using AMD you do, because that's the majority of your gpu driver.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Linux Mint is a pretty solid option for a desktop OS. And it feels quite a bit like Debian.