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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?

Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

cy_narrator ,

Not sure if I will live that long

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

Yep, got my frenly window-smashing ball and a mug of pale eol ready.

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DSTGU ,

Cheap good win10 systems, yum. I m ready

rekabis ,

I used to take pride in that I could fully set up, configure, secure, minimally provision (with software) and neuter the more egregious aspects of Vista/7/8/8.1 within a 16hr time frame.

With Windows 10 this increased to 20 hours, and with my own Windows 11 install I am currently clocking in at 24hrs - three whole work days. The last day of which is spent in the Registry and doing multiple reboots to ensure the new UI fuckery has been appropriately castrated.

I have a handful of programs, both current and vintage, that are either inadequately or completely unable to be serviced by Wine. With that said, I am now down to only two rigs on Windows, the remainder being various flavours of Linux or BSD.

Cocodapuf ,

I'm ready to reinstall 7, problem solved.

yessikg ,
@yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I have decided to install Debian on the one Windows 10 PC I have

InternetUser2012 ,

I've been ready, ditched that malware over a year ago and it has been great.

daniskarma ,

Finally I don't need my computer for working, they provided us with company laptops, so I don't need to worry about compatibility and windows only programs anymore.

So you know what I'm going to do once windows 10 reaches eol.

For my it will certainly be the year of desktop linux.

KyuubiNoKitsune ,

I don't know. I have a 7th gen i7 and it works fine, I want a new PC but can't afford it, but even if I could I wouldn't touch Win11 with a barge pole.

I fucking hate it. I don't want to move to Linux. Probably just pirate the updates for the next 3 years and then deal with the security risk.

Need to petition the EU to shop this shit and force them to extend life due to the insane amount of e-waste it will cause.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Been ready since before Win 10 was announced. I went 100% Linux 10 years ago.

meathorse ,

Got a well specced 4th Gen i7 that does everything I need so unless it blows up, I won't be upgrading. Started working on the plan this week. Been using Mint on my secondary (non essential laptop) but never had the stones to take the plunge on my main rig.

Watching MS stepping into the enshittification trend and AI with Win11 means this is the last straw, particularly now I don't need to rely on keeping up with windows for work. Currently bashing on Linux Mint DE in a VM to test what I need and have working to be happy:

Outlook/Office - Thunderbird is good but it's been a while since I've used Libre Office but didn't have much luck with it in the past - trashing the formatting when bouncing between LO & MSO. Hoping the more recent versions are better else office web will have to do for those documents that don't play nice.

Steam - make sure I can get it going, several key games. This is the least of my worries after seeing what others have said. NVIDIA graphics may be a bit more painful.

RDP - I still have another headless win10 media box. VNC as backup. This box will be the next on the chopping block if all goes well.

Backup - this is the big one. Currently use Backblaze for unlimited backup and love the set & forget nature. No native Linux client so would require moving to their B2 platform with a third party interface - do-able, just need to get off my butt to work it out :p

File structure - always struggled with this in my playing with Linux, need to become more comfortable with where files live and general directory structure.

Will slowly pick those off over the next couple of weeks and then I should be good to go.

Sam_Bass ,

Mine's been "dead" for near 5 years now and its still chuggin along as an arcade/jukebox/dvdplayer

FellowEnt ,

I should probably look into why my absolute beast of a machine apparently isn't compatible with W11. I've just been ignoring it forever.

thatKamGuy ,

You likely just need to enable TPM through the BIOS (each manufacturer calls it something different).

I’m in a similar boat, but am going to use W10 EOL to probably jump ship to Linux - if not at the very least switch to Windows 10 LTSC.

FellowEnt ,

Thanks, seems easy enough! Unfortunately my work revolves around the Adobe suite so it's W11 fun times for me yay

stom ,

Same. If it weren't for substance painter and a few other DCC apps I'd have already moved over.

Liz ,

They're requiring an unnecessary new piece of hardware in order to force more computer sales. Exactly why Microsoft is interested in forcing more hardware sales, I'm not entirely sure. The hardware in question is some kind of encryption thingy, but it doesn't offer any real benefits beyond just changing where the fundamental layer of trust is for the encryption in your computer.

Majestix ,

My whole Company is still on 10, seems like we need to somewhat scramble to move over, right?

whereisk ,

That's what they're counting on.

Trollception ,

Microsoft will extend support once the deadline is near, for enterprise customers.

joneskind ,
@joneskind@lemmy.world avatar

IMHO people just won’t give a flying fuck about it. Most people won’t even be aware of it.

They’ll upgrade when they’ll buy a new PC, just as usual.

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