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End of 10 — Windows 10 is reaching the end of its support. Time to make the switch to Linux. (endof10.org)
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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?

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:

  1. No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs
  2. Enhanced Privacy
  3. Good For The Planet
  4. Community & Professional Support
  5. Better User Control
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But why, when you can use Linux?

In all seriousness, if you need Windows for some applications, spin up a VM and put a stripped-down LTSC version on that. I have one such VM on my laptop for Toyota's Techstream software for my cars. That program is Windows-only.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've considered the "just use Linux" arguments thoroughly and they always come up short for my serious computing work.

It works for 90% of my use cases, the other 10% is unbearably difficult or impossible to reconfigure. And that's with the assumption I do a pretty significant HD shuffle just to work up to that functionality.

And that's without worrying about the long term update stability of stuff like Linux, where Ubuntu updates can cause major system issues if you don't get the next major version. (And please don't say that a less user-friendly release is the solution to that). 7 years from now beats Ubuntu's ~~5~~ <4 years of updates...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ubuntu is corporate whoremonger. Don't use it, unless you're a corporate whore.

Don't misunderatand me. I think that makes it a good and useful thing to add to the mix right now. If you don't understand why, then find something else. I ain't gonna explain shit about that. It'a obvious, unless you're ignorant or a corporate whore.

Learn it. VM it. If you can't get that far, build a system, that spies on your own network and censors EVERYTHING on its way out jamming until observation that you confirm that it ain't the exact same shit you're doing. Thus, spy. It don't matter why we don'y play Q's that ain't Q's. Do it because it's only yours if you actually do so.

Even if you think you don't have windoze doesn't mean you don't have the same backdoor in your hardware. Until we get an effective and working RISC-V and any such open hardware, you MUST do this or else.

IDGAF about any "I don't have to hide because..." because that's not a Question. Either love, live, and learn or stop pretending to speak to me. IDGAF if you're a bot or just repeating one, zucker.

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