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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline (www.express.co.uk)

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (55 children)

These people... "please, let me continue being a Microsoft slave!".

Free yourselves and install Linux.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (33 children)

I'm so sick of hearing this and I use Linux on a daily basis

Installing Linux for us nerds is just something we know how to do. Asking a computer "normie" (which is, basically everyone else) to change their operating system is just not happening.

I couldn't imagine trying to step my mum through installing Linux if I stood next to her, and I wouldn't class her as stupid.

I maintain that for Linux to obtain mass adoption it either needs to be preinstalled or make it no different to install than a regular Windows program (which is damn near impossible).

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

It's actually not a big lift for "normies", and I'm considering switching my parents to Linux after Win10 support ends. They don't really know how to use Windows, so I just have to pre-install a Linux that looks similar (probably Mint) and then put Firefox, Libre Office and VLC shortcuts in the same place they expect. As long as Firefox still can get them to youtube and facebook, it doesn't really matter what the rest of the OS can do. I'll have to find an alternative remote support solution though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'll have to find an alternative remote support solution though.

RustDesk works on linux, at least they have a release for it have not tried it myself.

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