Guy in a room full of treasure with thinkpad laptops "I think I've found heaven"
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (58 children)

What’s happening on Oct 14?

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (54 children)

    Windows 10 support ends and many are suggesting that instead of people moving to Windows 11, many will just move over to Linux

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's not about people trashing/selling old ThinkPads because Win10 support ended?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Personally never realized what October 14, 2025 was about until just now but your explanation makes more sense ... and it also make me realize that I should be looking for another thinkpad in the near future.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yes, specificially hardware missing the prerequisites for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 iirc.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    eh~ There are a variety of requirements that have to be met and can fail for various reasons.

    GPU has to support having DirectX12. CPU must be 8th Gen if Intel regardless of TPM version. And of course, as you mentioned, it has to be full TPM 2.0

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Doubt.

    Yes, many internet nerds will finally switch to linux. Most normies will just throw millions of computers into the trash and buy win11 approved machines.

    Source: my tech illiterate normie family

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And we don't actually need everyone to switch to Linux. Much like with Lemmy we need enough people to have thriving communities with Linux we need just enough people for companies to start properly supporting Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    yeah i just watched a girl in our class group chat trying to run a windows installer on a mac

    things like these remind me why linux won't become popular

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    well if people stick to the proper linux way of doing things (official software repos) then that's actually closer to what they are used to doing (apple app store) than just randomly downloading installers off the internet

    linux should be a relatively easy switch for most people.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I will have to disaggree on that, i can see your point but that is only if they had someone to manage thier system until they get the hang of it, otherwise they will jump back to what they were comfortable using.

    Be it mac, windows or a phone

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Hi, it's me. I'm one of those people. Currently test driving OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in KDE Plasma on an old Chromebook. Liking Linux well enough so far, and i have no special fondness for windows. Just need to find/learn Linux alternatives or work arounds for a few key things, like Cricut and SketchUp. Then I feel like I could easily switch over my main machine and never look back.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I can speak from experience on the Cricut: you'll still need Design Space to actually do the cutting, but you can use Inkscape to make your designs, just export them to .svg files and load those into Design Space on an old tablet or something. There's currently no alternative to Design Space for the actual cutting, due to Cricut's proprietary nature.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could you run it in a VM or Wine?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Didn't try a VM, but it definitely does not work on WINE.

    Edit: just did a quick search, it does work with a VM. I also thought about something like Waydroid to run the Android app, or maybe a port kind of like Sober does for Roblox, but I have tried neither and I'm going to sleep soon, so hopefully I'll remember about it later lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks for the heads-up. I don't use the Cricut all the time so an old tablet will probably do fine but I'll also look into how to spin up VMs for things like this. Although I doubt my chrultrabook will be able to run windows due to its anemic specs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Chromebook can run Android apps with the stock OS, so you're probably good there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Unfortunately it no longer has the chrome OS and is running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead but I was able to get a design cut using my phone today. My old tablet refused to connect to the cutter, I think it might be too old.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    I did move to Mint to try it before October, but I am underwhelmed :(

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