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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Oh no! Anyway, nobody cares but Linux folks looking to prove how much better Linux is.
And tax payers who have to replace perfectly good systems in schools and government offices.
Here in my southeast European shithole I'm not worrying about my tax money, the upgrade is going to be pretty cheap, they're just going to switch from unlicensed XP to unlicensed Win7.
There will be DOZENS of 10 year old computers that survived 10n years of service in a library or student run orgs. Dozens I tell you!
Let's fix school funding instead of using it as an edge case to support old ass hardware that can barely hold 10fps in a zoom call.