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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[-] Kcap@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Note to self: sell laptop on Facebook marketplace in September 2025

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So does anyone have a good strategy for transferring non giant things? Like I have a ton of unorganized pictures, documents, videos dating back to my 2009 1TB HDD that still works.

I think I want to run Debian mostly because I don't know any other build well. Well RHEL, but I want to keep it similar to the Steam Deck as I can

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

1TB is easy, a sata to usb 3.0 adapter is like $10 and will transfer all that data in a few hours. If you are more patient just setup the drive as shared in windows and transfer it over the network. I just copied about 7TB a few weeks ago to a new NAS over the network and I had it done over the weekend.

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[-] terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

At least it'll do wonders for the used market, hopefully.

[-] scripthook@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is why I switched over to Mac back in 2022. I knew that I didn't want to move forward with Windows but had to get a new computer anyways. I already have an iPhone and a Mac Mini M1 was only $700. Thanks Microsoft for forcing a Windows user of 30 years away from your OS.

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