Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
I saw a really cool project showcase yesterday: Operese. I’m not quite sure how it works, but it installs Kubuntu directly in Windows, and after a reboot, instead of starting Windows, you boot into Kubuntu with all your user files copied over from Windows.
Everybody on Lemmy thinking Windows 10 users have to choose among buying a new PC, switching to Linux, or waiting for Microsoft to blink, but six bucks and my right nut says the overwhelming majority aren’t going to do squat when their machine stops updating.
I still expect Microsoft to further pussy out
I look forward to companies dumping a bunch of cheap and powerful mini-PCs on the market. I want to play around with a home server.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the end of w10 support only affecting Windows home users, at least for now? E.g enterprise and other licences will still get support?
If you have a local college, get on their surplus mailing list.
How cheap have you seen the pcs go for?
There is a local tech, college, government ewaste facility near me.
I was recently bidding on fifteen 2u rack servers, fully equipped ready to plug and play essentially, but 5 years old. The entire lot sold for 700 bucks.
A second lot sold at the same time, twelve of exactly the same server slightly newer but less storage (only 50TB) that lot sold for 900.
edit Just Checked currently with 9h left there is a lot 25 OptiPlex computers (sans HD) for 135 dollars.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that most colleges will have an auction site too.
My college doesn’t actually resell computers, but that’s because a local prison has a program where the inmates refurbish old equipment to send out to low income schools. But, considering most of this equipment won’t be usable, I expect us to start selling it.
Based on the prices we sell other technology for, probably somewhere under $50. My guess would be $20.
I’m stuck using certain software that doesn’t run on Linux, so I’m stuck using 10 until the end of time I guess.
It’s probably time to move my Win7 laptop to Linux though.
my Win7 laptop
Stay safe out there.
The only thing it ever connects to the Internet for is getting to Google fiber speed test with a hardwired connection to the modem. Not that there’s anything important on it anyways.
You can use 0patch to continue to get security updates.
Windows 10 is ending support in October, prevent e-waste, switch to Linux
Please, without the comma splice.
I saw this the other day and it looked like a cool project to help people migrate.
You just need to recommend an easy to use Distro. So no Archlinux. And Nobara which I use is rather middle difficulty.
honestly, and this is a hill i’m willing to die on, the distro really doesn’t matter it’s the DE that’s the deal breaker.
You could have something like CachyOS, which is Arch, that is painfully easy to install. you can choose your DE, hell even your shell, now from the gui installer. It’s noob friendly. I’ve seen more people online have more issues trying to update Ubuntu than Arch. Hell I rarely read of any Fedora issues when compared to Ubuntu and Mint.
Honestly it doesn’t matter the distro. as long as it can install KDE Plasma which is THE defacto noob friendly DE then it’s fine. if it’s the default DE, even better.
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