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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline (www.express.co.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Fun fact: Linux is so customizable that you can run a modern GUI and software on 46mb of ram and a CPU from 1989. Don't let Microshit tell you to throw out your old PC, it's truly surprising what's possible.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I've switch my home computers to Linux. Unfortunately, at work, I have to maintain a Windows environment...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Did your job give you a work Laptop? If you personally own it then you could just run Windows in a VM.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I do IT support at my company. We are a small business, but we work on many government contracts. I'm personally not experienced enough on Linux to support it at a businesses level. Part of working on government contracts is that we have to be CMMC certified in the relatively near future, probably first or second quarter next year. I'd love to get off of Windows, but like I mentioned I don't have the knowledge to get us there, and we're pretty entrenched in Windows until at least after the audit. Maybe someday, but the Microsoft m365 business GCC High is built with that specific certification in mind. It would require changing everything about our business to switch, and I don't care enough about the company to go through that.

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

    But can I be fucked waiting 5 minutes for a VM to boot every time I need to use a Windows-only tool?

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

    Don't shutdown the VM. Instead, use shutdown -> save button in the virt-manager. Now your VM will launch in seconds next time you want to use it because it'll be resumed from the saved state.

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  • [+] -25 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    So customizable that it can’t even be run on many devices.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Linux runs on way more devices than Windows, what are you talking about?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Well not the ones I tried. Maybe I had bad luck.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s been like 15 years so I don’t remember but I remember one wouldn’t work due to a proprietary driver. The other I just couldn’t figure out so it may be user error but it certainly wasn’t easy to set up.

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

    Probably something in the BIOS, like secure boot or something. Normally such issues are easy to troubleshoot.

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