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submitted 7 months ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 123 points 7 months ago

If MS decides that my hardware is obsolete, I'll just go full Linux 🤷‍♂️

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 7 months ago

Personally I use Linux Mint on my other machine and Windows on my main PC

Before Windows 10 goes EoL I'm going to get my NAS running a Windows VM for Fusion 360 and Lightroom and my main rig will be on Linux Mint as well

I just need a need to finish my NAS rebuild to get everything rolling at full steam

Unfortunately that means I need to stop buying car parts first

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

stop buying car parts first

Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

As your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. Bikes and bike parts are cheaper. And then you can have more bikes than cars, and more bikes to buy parts for. Wait, where was I going with this again?

[-] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

This was my logic.
Sell the BMW and get a Ducati and then a Honda Monkey….
Ooooh shiny new Rizoma parts!!!

My account ain’t growing at all…!

[-] kingorgg@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

If you wanted to get rid of windows in general, Darktable seems to be a good alternative to lightroom, for raw editing. There's a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials available.

Not sure about Fusion 360 though... Maybe FreeCAD?

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately FreeCAD is not as featur e rich as Fusion 360

It's getting closer but it's not there yet

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 7 months ago

Did that over 10 years ago so hope you join up soon. :)

[-] Trollception@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

My machine is 7 years old and runs fine on Windows 11. I don't understand all these posts about Windows 11 not being supported. TPMs have been a thing for 10+ years now.

[-] PassingThrough@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Do you game at all? Gaming on Linux has made great strides, be be fair, but for a lot of titles you still need to consider a dual boot of some form of Windows, thanks to over the top anti-cheat, DRM, and developer support.

Something to consider for the gamers out there.

[-] kava@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The only titles that don't work in Linux are the ones with invasive anti-cheat, some multi-player titles.

Virtually all single players game work. I've had games that don't work on Windows due to crashes / performance but run on Linux.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Game pass games also do not work afaik.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Apex started acting up on pop a year and half ago which drove me back to my windows partition (that I hadn't seen in almost 18 months).

I don't know if my issue is: pop, proton, steam, apex, my hardware(bad ram?), flatpaks, the deb, or something else. In my opinion it's one of the toughest part about Linux gaming--when something goes wrong you arent going to find a ton of help since there is so much fragmentation.

But anyway, I echo your sentiment. Windows is still a necessary evil for a lot of us if you are big into PC gaming.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago
[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

Apple is king of new OS doesn't work on the old hardware though

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yes! Luckily the opensource folks are crazy and make awesome progress reversing m chips It matters to me because somday (maybe 10y) I’ll get the one of my mother for free 😂 like i got my other apple PCs (running Arch/endeavourOS)

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

Apple's the only hardware vendor for MacOS, so they've got slightly different incentives than Microsoft does for Windows. If a new MacOS release induces hardware purchases, that's a lot of money for Apple. If a new Windows release induces hardware purchases, Microsoft sees little of that benefit.

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