Will this make companies and individuals consider a Linux alternative? Or will they just continue to run Windows10?
This planned obsolescence practice is quite simply obscene.
This was discussed on /r/Linuxm*asterrace. And basically, everyone there agrees that, as much as we’d like that to happen, it won’t.
Just like there are still people running Windows 7 on their laptops because “that’s what was installed on it, I already got used to it, F**k OFF”, people will just keep their Win10 installs as long as they physically can. No one likes Windows, but people hate change even more.
That tracks. When 8 came out, people stuck with 7. When Vista came out, people stuck with XP. When ME came out, people stuck with Win98 (and some with Win2k). I imagine this will be much the same.
It’s a ridiculous situation in my household. Our newest computer is a NUC, but it doesn’t have TPM. I only run Windows in a VM on it, but still. Nothing else that I own is even close to capable of running Windows 11. These are all decent computers, performance-wise.
I learned Linux on a whim, but now it’s the only thing saving me from a home-wide hardware refresh at a very inconvenient time. Lesson learned.
Win 10 is still supported atm though, right? I actually don’t know because I don’t use windows anymore.
Yes, it is. It will be supported for several more years, so at the moment the issue is only irritating for people who get itchy knowing that they aren’t running the latest version of something. For me it has more to do with what I plan to do a few years down the road.
Apparently Windows10 support ends on October 14th 2025. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/windows-10-support-ends-in-4-years-but-this-is-what-you-should-know-now/
That is so absurd I find it hard to believe…
