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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago

"Trade it in or recycle it" basically means "your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill".

[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago) (1 children)

I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.

Anybody who asks me about Windows 10's EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i'll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops or spend money to stick with Windows.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

paper thin security advantages.

And loads of highly intrusive, unremovable, anti-user bullshit.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 hours ago

This is incredibly infuriating and I'd honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

Glad those tariffs hit just in time

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can't run any autodesk products on Linux atm.... Revit, Autocad... Sad noises

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 minutes ago

Install atlas os and dual boot linux as your daily driver. Honestly linux experience is what you think windows experience is and vice versa. Windows is just insanely bad now. I haven't touched my psu power button, done anything close to using reg edit or have a bsod equvilent just from playing a video game since I moved to fedora.

[–] _carmin@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Use Linux. And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option. Its actually way ahead than Windows or Macos

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Devils advocate. The m{1,4} chips are nice.

[–] computerscientistII@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option.

It is a viable option, especially for old hardware. I mainly don't use it because I want to install an OS exactly once: When the computer is brand new. This is exactly when some shit is not working properly on Linux. But if you have old hardware, it will run no problems. Just install Ubuntu and Libre Office on it, pray that you get the printer set up, done.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"pray you get the printer set up" is more of a windows thing. For ten years, over three versions of windows, I couldn't get printing to work reliably. Switched to Linux, no problems since

Also, the new hardware thing is not really true anymore. Most things are supported from the get-go, or at least within a few weeks

[–] computerscientistII@lemm.ee 1 points 12 minutes ago

I also never had a problem. Neither under windows nor under linux. The problem usually occurs within the printer. The more urgently you need to print a document, the more likely your printer is gonna jam. I suspect those things are so crappy in order to keep IT support companies afloat.

[–] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I installed graphyOS on mine

[–] zer0bitz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Im so glad I fully switched to Linux a year ago. Never going back to Windows.

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

i’ve been on linux on and off since 1998, however I fully switched about 5 years ago and never looked back.

I was curious around 3 months ago, between distro swapping and I installed W11. It lasted 2h until I rage installed linux and took me an entire day to wash the windows taste off. bleah…

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[–] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

They just try to force people to buy another PC and so many "computer ignorant" people will...poor old ladies who click on the ads...

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

My IBM is still going strong.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Throw it away.

Gently

In my direction

[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Cause lobbing 25+lbs of hardware at someone is frowned upon most of the time.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Don't wanna hurt the other person or the computer, duh. After all, a device infested with Windows doesn't really need to be punished for it.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 42 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Hold on to your butts.

Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can literally buy new thinkpads with ubuntu pre installed for $140 dollars off the price of a windows PC

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

That's cool, but a lot of people (myself included) aren't able to justify a brand new laptop. I can absolutely afford a new laptop...I just have no desire to buy one when older ones work just fine and have plenty of life in them.

My current laptop is a T495 that I bought at a flea market two years ago for $100 and it still handles all of my needs completely fine. My kid is using a T470 I bought not too long before that for around the same price, and it does everything he needs too (though it could stand to handle Minecraft JE a bit better...but in fairness he installs nearly every mod he finds and I never really taught him about adjusting settings).

If you aren't doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.

That said, his laptop speakers are blown...so maybe it's time I start looking for an upgrade for me. Kids are good for that type of stuff. Still remember convincing my wife we needed to get him a Switch for Christmas...his first Christmas. I wouldn't buy myself a switch...but for my 5 month old kid? Yeah he needs Breath of the Wild.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines...

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago

Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.

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[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4's in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.

Microsoft: "Just throw it away, bro." Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

Microsoft: “Can’t run our AI dataminer?” gtfo

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

end of support for windows 10

beginning of support for linux mint

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[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Sweet, bunch of cheap laptops about to flood the market

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