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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Throw it away.

Gently

In my direction

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Why gently?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Hold on to your butts.

Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 minutes ago

Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This seems much more likely lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Very good point!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4's in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.

Microsoft: "Just throw it away, bro." Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Microsoft: “Can’t run our AI dataminer?” gtfo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I'd have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space

Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

It will be difficult, but technically possible. You’d have to ensure bitlocker is disabled on your windows drive. If you’re not sure what that is, don’t assume that means it’s not enabled. Windows does enable it by default in some cases. It encrypts your drive and you won’t be able to access it.

But in all honesty, I’d recommend just starting from scratch if steam games are what you’re most worried about. First, some of them might not work on Linux. Second, you may encounter strange issues that require redownloading much of your library anyway. Lastly, you’ll want to transfer them to a drive with a Linux file system which will take time. That’s if you even have the drive space to spare. More likely is you’ll be formatting that drive anyway to a Linux filesystem, wiping the contents anyway.

Even with slow internet, redownloading games as needed will be way easier and likely faster.

If you’re unsure what distro to go with, I recommend going with Bazzite. It’s a distro optimized for gaming and is an atomic distro. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it, just know that for most casual users, an atomic distro makes way more sense and is much less likely to break. Additionally, if you have nvidia hardware, the drivers come pre installed so it’ll work right out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Just copy C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/ to /home/yourname/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ and Steam will recognize those games are already present when you try to download them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Sweet, bunch of cheap laptops about to flood the market

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

end of support for windows 10

beginning of support for linux mint

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, my old desktop computer is getting turned into my first dedicated Linux machine and my current desktop isn't getting updated to 11 until October 13th.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i just switched my laptop to mint and my desktop is next :) surprisingly so many "windows only" steam games run perfectly fine in linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Except for some games with Anti-Cheat you can basically play anything that runs on Windows on Linux too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

and really i wouldn't want to play those ones anyway :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What a coincidence, the end of my support for windows is also approaching.

jk I srubbed that shit from my personal devices years ago after graduating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

I just installed Mint instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 ... what's the issue?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn't, oh, say, in the last 12 years?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 minutes ago

I used WinXP till '19 with no signs of infections. Just extracting the .wim image of the PC was enough to trigger Defender on Win10. It was infected.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Even JavaScript can infect you.

Assuming your family does online banking and brokerage you then become a jumping off point for malware.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Just recycle that shit! Here's my...and address where you can recycle it to....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That moment when Microsoft tells people to throw away perfectly good working computers because they're running Windows 10. When Windows 10 was just coming out or had just come out, Microsoft promised that Windows 10 would be the last OS of theirs, and there would only be updates. Also Microsoft is constantly sending messages to people running Windows 10 urging them to update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

I remember that "promise" too. And here we are

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

I really wish there was something regulatory that could be done about this. There are millions of perfectly good fully working computers that are going to go in the fucking trash because of this. I understand the desire for a TPM on every machine. It makes sense in a way. But the pure environmental impact is just indefensible. All of those computers had a significant environmental footprint to build them and ship them and again to dispose of them plus building and shipping their replacements.
If Microsoft had such a hard-on for TPM, they should have worked with computer manufacturers to make some sort of retrofit system or way of easily determining if a TPM can be added to an existing computer

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

Holy shit they really just said, "throw it away". Troglodytes!

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