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Windows 10 EOL PSA (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by zcd@lemmy.ca to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 169 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[–] Titou@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago

Huge respect for not putting Ubuntu

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 95 points 5 months ago (6 children)

is this real? windows 10 literally came out yesterday

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 177 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Remember when W10 was going to be the last windows you'd ever need.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 161 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever need.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, not moving on. I still have a lot of things to figure out though. Unfortunately windows is easier for a lot of things but I'm completely done.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I meant I’m going to use a different OS after 10.

[–] tea 16 points 5 months ago

This is linuxmemes after all...

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 58 points 5 months ago

To be fair, that is entirely accurate. It is the last windows I will ever need because I switched to linux.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On released they didn't know yet how far they can push that telemetry shit down their users' throats. I bet, 11 is better optimized for that. And eventually, it'll be Win365 OSaaS anyway...

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[–] evlogii@lemm.ee 64 points 5 months ago (3 children)

But what's an ᗋR𝖢ꔠ?

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You just summoned a demon

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No I think it's a daemon they summoned. Maybe the notification daemon?

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Btw

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

70% of the market. Half of those computers can't even run windows 11. Good to see Microsoft taking charge in the fight against the environment by asking tens of millions of people to throw away their perfectly good computers and buy new ones

[–] growingentropy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

I can't wait for some new bargain Linux machines.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

For real. I'm genuinely trying to grasp why. Is it seriously just so they can require secure boot and then say Windows 11 is secure from ransomware even though that's a feature of the motherboard and not the OS?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

They have added so much ad stuff and other garbage that the OS is slowing down, to combat the user perception that the OS is slow they have increased the hardware requirement.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it's probably a Mac.

This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.

Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they're necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.

So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.

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[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 edition has support until January 13th 2032.

I'd obviously prefer if more people gave Linux a try but if you're literally forced to use Windows then it's probably your best option right now.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago (11 children)

If my Nvidia graphics card played nicely, I would.

It's my #1 complaint with Linux... Well Nvidia.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Progress in that regard is actually pretty rampant lately, I can imagine by the time Windows 10 is EOL it will be no different from AMD.

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[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So...

Windows 10: the "last" windows version

Release Windows 11, requires specific hardware that you can't realistically add to your existing PC. But Windows 10 will keep being updated

Windows 10 is not getting anymore updates

Love it, no notes.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, my understanding is the "10 is the last version" idea came from a developer speaking in an unofficial capacity and the media ran with it. It may have never been true.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

While that is technically true, Microsoft didn't really make any effort to correct the misunderstanding, despite it being a widely reported story in tech.

I suspect they had a legitimate faction that was going to say "rolling release" and so they let it go.

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[–] Toes@ani.social 44 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Let's be honest, real nerds use Gentoo

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 70 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Better start compiling now so its ready by October

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I started my Gentoo compile in 2008. It should be ready by next October.

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

a good starter distro but ideally you should make your own from scratch so you know what's in it

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 19 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Honestly you're not a real one until you've written your own kernel entirely

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Linux has a good starter kernel but ideally you should

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

(I wish I was that advanced, maybe some day.)

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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Linux mint cinnamon but cool cool

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I like how they end support for OS without providing an upgrade for a lot of people. Might as well put a Linux ad in their "Your PC is not supported" bullshit.

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[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 29 points 5 months ago

btw

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All these gaming anti-cheats better become Linux compatible cause I'm definitely not upgrading to 11

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anti cheat is about the only thing that doesn't work but I see that as a bonus. Anti cheat is more like a virus than it ever has been with the rootkit thing.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

All jokes aside, after hearing that EOL is coming to Win10 this October, I have decided over the summer, before fall quarter is in and I'm back to start my 2nd year of college, that I would definitely be taking everything I need/want off of my desktop and switch to something like mint or MX because of how simple and user friendly they've been to me as someone who's only been using Linux for maybe 2-3 years. Only things I would I need are dedicated time and personal drive to pull that off and a new external drive for storing all my files.

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[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hell my win10 pc hasnt had an update since '21 so no great loss

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (8 children)

That computer better be air gapped. Security updates are essential.

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

But see if they started using gentoo like myself. If they start compileing now They will have a full desktop by then

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

I run mint btw

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Debian + KDE Plasma

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

But I want Plasma 6…

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