I swear I'm switching to Linux when they stop supporting Win 10
Why wait? Buy a cheap ass laptop and have it as a Linux machine.
I did that not to long ago and it worked kinda OK, then it did old laptop things and stopped turning on. I've used Linux on a couple of old computers now, and for the most part it worked fine after a little fiddling with the setup.
my pc is perfectly fine but they're going to EoL next year forcing people to buy new computers they shouldn't have to
maybe 2025 will finally be the year of linux on the desktop
A very old computer will last a very long time running Linux. Microsoft want you to buy a new computer every 2 year. I feel that ten years old computer is still good for most people.
my machine won't even run that so they can't get me
https://atlasos.net/ windows mod that does a clean modified install to cut out most of the malware, uses half the ram and up to 10% less idle cpu of bloated default windows, uses official win10 or win11 iso files, still need a product key
https://wubuntu.org/ ubuntu that has a cloned windows ui to help ease transition (if switching is an option)
If I switch to Linux will all the programs I use for Uni/work be fucked? (Teams, Word, Excel, R, etc)
R should just work straight up better on Linux.
I don't know about Teams, but Word and Excel can be replaced with LibreOffice, files made in MS Office are compatible
teams has a web app.
Libre office is a pretty good replacement for the Windows office suite, though I will say that Excel is a little nicer than its Libre office counterpart. You could try them out on your current system to see how they work out for you. R has a bunch of linux compatible versions though I am not so sure about Teams being able to run on such systems, there is a possibility that one might be able to run it using compatibility tools like WINE but I do not have any experience with Teams so I cant really say.
Addendum: it looks like microsoft just rolled out a version of teams for linux that is more or less up to speed with the ones for windows. Also important to mention is that there is a possibility that the security systems your organizations use might have compatibility issues so thats something to research and/or ask people in the IT department about.
I use Teams every day on Arch Linux, you'll be fine for that at least.
You could use the web version of each of those apps. They may not have complete feature parity with the corresponding Windows desktop versions and the web versions may be a little more challenging to use, but you should be able to get by in most situations. The nice thing is that you can try it out right now on your Windows device to see what your experience would be like on Linux - just make sure you use the same/similar browser you would use on Linux.
The bigger issue with switching to Linux for school is likely going to be non-Microsoft software that one or some of your classes requires you to use that only supports Windows. If you are not able to get it to run with WINE or a Windows VM, you may be stuck running Windows for a few more years.
The only thing that may be an issue is highly specific software, and games. Over the past year, whenever I start new stuff, I always get a Linux-compatible program/workflow, so it's gradually becoming a non-issue. Overwatch and Beat Saber are the only things tying me to Windows now.
My laptop doesn't meet the system requirements 
I literally just bricked my computer trying to update to W11. My drive doesnt want to convert from mbr to gpt
Did you use some tool to create a GPT partition? It isn't bricked if it's just a bootloader issue.
My laptop is already on linux but my desktop is still windows because of inertia.
Fortunately, windows update has been defeated by having no room on C:\ because everything puts shit in appdata no matter what drive I tell it to install to
It's so fucking bad.
I'm sure there is a way to completely disable it with apps like Winaero Tweaker. Luckily, I don't have a CPU with "AI", so I don't have to be annoyed by Copilot.
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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