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Just an FYI - you don’t have to throw away computers that can’t upgrade past Windows 10. They will keep working.
Long story short, my Dad just got a new computer. (His old was was actually really old, but he could have used Linux.)
Anyway, I told him not to throw out the old computer and that I would take it. He was baffled that I would want it or could even do anything with it.
I am going to set it up as a backup server in the house for my parents and myself as it will be a nice way to have an offsite backup for free.
So many use cases! I'm giving an old NUC to a kid at work who's learning Linux. Jesus, the kid bought a copy of Linux from "the best/most-famous hacker in the world!". We had a come-to-Jesus talk about that horseshit.
Unbelievable. Linux sellers deserve the death penalty. /s (mostly...)
I recently virtualised an XP machine that had been running since time immemorial, and will continue to (virtually) do so.
I'm doing my part!
I've loaded Mint on my prime system and a laptop, another laptop with Fedora, Manjaro on another main system I test with and EndeavorOS on all my media systems. I've also loaded about 8-10 other distros on Proxmox to play/test with.
Where I had doubts on whether I needed anything off of the old MS system, I P2V'ed the OS and spool it up on Proxmox if needed to review any history within the OS/browser.
I still have a couple of W10 VMs lingering and a Windows server. I'll "upgrade" the workstation VMs to W11 (and shut them down) since I have the license and I can see sometimes having to use Windows for whatever dumb reasons. I'll leave the Windows server for now to maintain the domain as that allows me to block telemetry with GPOs. I may tire of that at some point though as MS will further wane away on my network.
My summer task is to convert all my 'Arrr software over to Linux versions. Still on W10 there. Wasn't sure which distro to go to for that....
Re: Arr software, spin up an Ubuntu VM and install Docker. Spin up portainer and then use that to spin up all thr arrs. Ezpz
KDE Neon here. I really really like it.
Windows 10 users encountering this post: this sounds like a lot of work. I'll just stick to windows 11.
Disabling all the dumb shit and ads on win11 is triple the work of switching to linux and learning to use it.
If you honestly believe that, this is another great example as to why people would stick to Windows 11.
Because they love spending hours and hours on removing bloatware? And hate having a clean, functional os? Yeah that is the last remaining use case of windows beyond proprietary apps.
Well, thanks for confirming you really do believe the memes lol.
idunno how you can have an another opinion after using both.
Because as someone who does use both, disabling Windows settings that arent great takes about 15 minutes.
If it takes you multiple hours, you're really bad at using computers or something.
The ones im talking about can't be disabled with settings. Im glad youre enjoying windows with telemetry and ads and soon ai and forced screen recording. I aint.
But they can. You're just bad at using a computer, I suppose.
Okay, ill reccomend linux instead of windows to people since windows is an advanced user only shitfest i guess.
Thank you for confirming you don't use Windows.
Your message is extremely confusing. I guess its easier not to reccomend windows to anyone anymore since even its fanboys cant pin down whats the point of it.
The point of windows? It's the same point as Linux. It's an operating system.
You do know what an operating system is, dont you?
Its for performing surgeries. Duh.
Oh, I get it. You're a purposefully ignorant dumbass.
Check out PostmarketOS for older machines/phones too. I got it working on an old Microsoft surface RT that would have been e-waste otherwise
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro running MX Linux. It's no match for my M2 Air, but it's still surprisingly useful.
Was up the council recycling centre the other day, looking at some of the dumped computers, wondering just how many of them could still be very useful.
I upgraded my Win 10 laptop to IoT Enterprise LTSC recently which is stupidly easy and grants you support till 2032.
Aside from some weird app incompatibilities it's been working fine.
Been on Linux full time for al about 2 months now... Proton and Bazzite have made the transition soooo much easier as gaming is what was always holding me back.
Yea, gaming has come a long long way thanks to Valve. I was also holding back due to this (and not wanting to spend too much of my spare time learning a new OS and commands etc) but I just installed Zorin (chosen for minimal effort) and hardly had to do anything. I struggled a bit to get Proton to work at first but now my entire Steam library works perfectly and I'm so much happier with it than I ever was using Windows. Gonna be getting my friends and some family on it as well!
I switched in January because my PC doesn’t support TPM 2.0 (gen 1 ryzen) after having not tried Linux since like 2011 gaming honestly kind of blew my mind, basically as “plug and play “ as windows.
I'm so happy that I went intel instead of gen1 ryzen that generation.
I still use it for work and would be so pissed if I needed to buy a new computer just to use Windows 11.
I genuinly need windows or mac for my work. I use linux on my personal laptop.
Part of me still does not think Microsoft is going to go through with it. There are too many Windows 10 PCs that will just become infected.
Part of me thinks the government will intervene as I think it could genuinely be a security issue to have so many unsecured devices in the wild.
But, another part of me has no hope for the future.
Sooo... I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Sadly people said the same for xp and 7 soo...
No lie. We play this game every 7 years or so. I was training on a Win10 machine at work yesterday. Think they're updating that? Nah. Hell, it probably could take an 11 upgrade and they haven't bothered. Why? It's a locked down machine. And if IT don't care, home users certainly won't.
Im hearing proton is good for games?
It’s fantastic. Unless you’re playing a specific few multiplayer competitive games, it’s just like windows (sometimes even better in terms of performance - and sometimes better in terms of retro compatibility)
Nice! So long as i can still play with by siblings on some private games ill be ok.
Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last Windows? I 'member.
I was for many of us. So, they were not totally wrong.
So much this. I had dabbled with Linux on various sbc knockoff raspberry pis and put one distro on an old netbook that I gave to a friend. Now my main laptop is going full penguin.
Technically, they didn’t, they just never corrected someone who did, and it spread far.
They didn't. They said it was the last version of windows you'd ever need.
Never felt so much more in control than when ditching Windows and installing first Linux Mint and later Kubuntu. Gonna try Arch in the future to feel like a god and completely in control over what happens on my machine.
that trajectory leads to Antix to give you full control over every decision and then from there to debian or devuan because all that decision making is exhausting, can't the machine just work and only update when there's security patches?
Hopefully many more Windows refugees would embrace the Kingdom of Torvalds.
endof10.org seems like a good website to direct people to via posters in your local community center or church. Or you can call a repair club in your area to ask if they want to be listed. Those are likely to have some Linux enthousiast members and already have a location.
Among lot of distro, Linux mint has to be the closest to windows and more refined
Show me how to use the Xbox app in Linux and I will switch today.
Out of curiosity what even does someone use that app for. Iv always just turned it on on my windows installs. It always just breaks and caused me issues. Or performed worse then just other apps for the same job.
I play XBox games on my computer. My computer is more than 10x faster then my XBox so games often play way better.
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