Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence
With Windows 10's end-of-life less than a year away, up to 240 million PCs could be expedited to landfill. Here are some ideas to delay that end well past 2025.
Didn't they say at one point that windows 10 would be the last windows version as they are switching to a rolling release model?
No they did not. An Engineer said it was the last Windows in the context of "the latest Version". The press just ran with the wrong headline.
Even tho my pc can run windoes 11, still running linux on it.
Me too. Bought a HP laptop made sure it was AMD. It came with win11, wiped it and installed Linux as soon as I got home.
I got an older Dell with Win10 on it to put Linux on. A good suggestion I followed was to find the Windows license key on the system before loading Linux. I then installed VirtualBox and installed Win10 with my key into VirtualBox. I only gave it 20G of space initially, which turned out to be too little for windows to install updates, so I reinstalled it in 30G.
Sometimes the best thing to do to a Window is leave it closed, forever.
I can't. I use AutoCAD in my side hustle...
Me too, except Rhino/Grasshopper. Thus, I dual-boot.
TLDR; go to Linux
[Serious question] Did Microsoft need to fundamentally change something, and that is why they back tracked on their Win10 evergreen promise? Or is this just a cash grab?
I'm sure that it's just the marketing dept changing hands over time. Marketing teams are like a Scott's Tots situation: they are just trying to say whatever makes the product numbers look good in the near term. Fulfilling on any promises is a future marketing team's job.
"Of all the empty promises I have made, this one is by far the most generous"
Michael Scott/Microsoft's marketing team
Microsoft has done this with every windows they've made. After the support period is over, you can pay for additional for a few years to help you transition. This one is so loud because windows 11 was such a privacy bait and switch.
Windows 11 is basically Windows 10, internally it hasn't changed names. They have to have an external trade name for it or people won't realize they're "behind."
They started requiring the use of motherboards with a TPM. Which is compete and utter bullshit because you need to disable the chip to dual-boot, yet Windows 11 will run for several months at a time with the chip disabled before it complains and forces you to temporarily turn it back on again. So requiring it for "security" is just an excuse to force you to buy new hardware.
Or you can send your windows 11 incompatible PCs to me, I'll take good care of them 😁
Glad to hear about 0patch being an option.
While I'm absolutely for reusing old hardware and am doing it myself, keep in mind that the security landscape has changed. Old hardware might have security vulnerabilities which could be exploited by malware. Running an up to date OS is not enough to keep you secured.
Any examples of computers with this problem? I can't think of any. Old BIOS versions maybe but I don't know of any examples that don't require physical access to the device.
I did that before Win 10 even came out.
Just don't upgrade?
I just retired a Windows 7 box this past summer, because it just worked until then.
mofos out here begging for another wannacry
That sounds great for an airgapped device! Most aren't though
But isn't it unsecure if you connect it to networks or worse, the internet? I would use Windows 7 ONLY in a virtual machine, or alternatively on real machine that is not connected to the internet.
Dear God I hope that was an airgapped machine...
I honestly get so sick of this cult on Lemmy. Your PC is running slow? Install Linux! Some company does something shitty? Try Linux! Sprained your ankle? Have you heard of Linux?
I have Linux installed, I still end up on Windows most of the time because I don't have the time and patience to manually set up and configure every single thing I do on my PC, also, I like to play a lot of games and use a lot of programs that all become a choir to run if they even do on Linux.
I'm with the other guy you're downvoting, I'm staying on 10.
Edit: I'm not going to respond to you all individually, a lot of really dumb shit has been said to me, but in particular I want to address the reccuring theme of my "being here" and "leaving". I'm not here, I just browse All and see a ton of these posts. I don't really subscribe to anything on Lemmy. Also, I don't even hate Linux, I just hate your cult like mentality and the way you guys shoehorn it into every discussion, as stated previously, I have Linux installed and have used several different distros over the years.
Did you get lost and forget that this is a Linux community? Where it's expected that people are pro-Linux?
If you like Windows, that's fine, but I dunno what you expected from !linux@programming.dev
It's pretty easy to not notice what community you're in. I'm subscribed to this because I use Linux and am interested in it, but like JokeDeity I am not under the illusion that many people here are that it is really a viable alternative to Windows for anyone but a small minority for whom fixing bugs is a hobby.
I want my audio to work and my laptop to get more than 2 hours battery life and not hard reboot when it runs out of RAM.
On that last point my most recent attempt to work around the issue was by massively increasing swap. I am a professional programmer with 30 years experience. I've been using Linux for 25 years. Increasing swap space was difficult for me.
On Windows it's a slider in a GUI. Just... stop pretending that Linux is on the same level, please.
Sir this is Wendy's
No, this is Patrick.
You make the excellent point that expressing enthusiasm for using Linux to solve problems is entirely inappropriate for an online Linux community.
Go ahead, also the !linuxsucks@lemmy.world community is this way for complaints.
W10 has gotten to a point to where it's alright but not amazing (particularly because SSDs are more standard as OS drives, and can handle the constant read/writes Windows 10 does to it). Feel free to stay but we'll still be here to support you, when you're ready to dive in fully, when Microsoft inevitably leaves you behind in support.
W11 is a spyware riddled mess. People need to be made aware of alternatives so they think it's not the only option when W10 support is dropped.
This is a post in the Linux community. Why are you here if you hate the content?
To be totally fair, I don't mind people being critical about Linux in our Linux community. And he brings up a few good points, but loses in some other. And so the arguments he has are muddied with his tone as well, that it comes over as a toxic comment rather than a critical comment pointing real issues.
I'm a Linux fanboy, but even I realize there are problems. And its okay to talk about problems. But its not okay in the tone he did. In my opinion.
Listen man, there's nothing wrong with loving Windows. Plenty of people do. But you're in a Linux community. If you don't like it here then leave. There's nothing wrong with walking away. No need to have unnecessary stress.
it is not easy because there are critical software that people used to work that are not available in Linux such as MS Excel, solidworks, Adobe Suites.
If people need Adobe software for "critical" use cases, then maybe Linux just isn't for them? Why do we have to behave as though Linux needs to be a perfect glove fit for everyone for it to be a valid option? Lemmy is a reddit alternative. Its not for everyone and that's fine. Same goes for Linux.
What irritates me most are people that are square pegs complaining they don't fit in a round hole. Either choose to adapt or stick with the square hole and get over it.
You never really jumped in both feet, if you really make the switch you only used open source software that runs native on Linux, also you start programming instead of playing games.
I use both Linux and Windows 11 for work. Dual-booting is a best-of-both-worlds scenario.
manually set up and configure every single thing I do on my PC
What distro do you run for linux?
Use Windows 11
Here we're talking about PCs that can't officially run Windows 11.
no thanks.
I would rather put all my private data at risk of hackers than put all my private data at risk of corporate interests.
at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back. what's Microsoft's excuse?
at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back
Firstly, that is absolutely not always the case. There's no honour among thieves, as the proverb goes.
Secondly, hackers do a lot more than simply encrypt your data and hold it for ransom.