As a 2 week arch Linux user I related to this meme. In fact I might incorporate this into my personality.

That's the purpose

Exactly the same, what kind of lame bs is this, the best thing about the Linux community is that people help each other, not for money or fake internet points, but because they are good people.

You are 20 years old?

Lemmy is SRS BUZINESS!!!

I love this image too much

We will get thousands more new users at least and I saw a poster in my local university about a install linux on your pc event.

It doesn't help that win10 support ending doesn't mean your device will immediately die. It means that you'll probably face some kind of consequences at some point in the following year and years to come, which is too hand-wavey for most people.

I ran XP for years after, Win 7 until 2.5 yrs ago, and bumped my current laptop back to 10 immediately.

Soon enough I'll be changing it to Mint tho 'cause shit is real out there now.

It doesn't matter much in the end

I think most users don’t care about support and will happily run an outdated OS.

This is precisely what happened every time a previous edition of Windows met end of support, with most users only moving to the current version by way of buying a new name-brand PC because their old one either finally broke or, more likely, because it became so loaded down with malware that it was subsequently unusable.

The majority of home users are non-nerds who only barely tolerate their computer at the best of times, click off error messages without reading them, and are quite likely to ignore any pleas from Microsoft to upgrade or buy a new computer as long as the prompts are dismissable and don't go as far as fully locking them out of using their machine.

These users will overwhelmingly have a "go to the store and buy it" mentality; they will not migrate to Linux. Rather, they will march to Best Buy or go to Amazon and buy a new PC with Windows 11 already on it, or maybe a small subset of them will work themselves up to being angry enough to switch to a Mac.

I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11

#!/bin/bash

ping 255.255.255.0 > checker &

sleep 5

kill "$!"

grep unreachable checker || echo '255.255.255.0'

ping 255.255.255.1 > checker &

sleep 5

kill "$!"

grep unreachable checker || echo '255.255.255.1'

ping 255.255.255.2 > checker &

sleep 5

kill "$!"

grep unreachable checker || echo '255.255.255.2'

...

Did I do it coach? 😭

why spend time googling dozens of half-related forum issues when chatgpt can average all those half-related issues in one plausible-looking reply. just think of the time saved.