PCs that can’t run Windows 11 are valuable to people who don’t want to wake up one morning and find they’ve been upgraded against their will.
Just run windows 3.1 dual booted with Linux mint. Easily the most rational decision.
Humm, I installed Windows 11 on a really old Dell laptop (clean install). I’m sure it was not HW supported but it installed fine. I may have had to click something like, " Yeah I know it doesn’t meet the specs"; but otherwise fine.
No, I don’t like Windows but it’s what my partner needed at the time.
This isn’t news, it’s just the standard notice that Microsoft isn’t going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.
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I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
Windows isn’t even that good. The OS is kind of a huge mess. It has two unfortunate advantages though: it’s the default on many devices, and (because of that) software availability is best. I wish it wasn’t the case.
After about 10 hours of reading and video watching, it seems pretty unanimous that linux mint with cinnamon is the easiest one to use and everything else is hobbyist stuff.
Decent choice, but I massively disagree with the last 6 words
Right? The easiest one is the hobbyist stuff, everything else is srs bsns.
I daily drove Linux Mint for 10 years. The Cinnamon desktop is still my favorite. I’m using Fedora KDE right now because of its Wayland implementation, I wanted better support for stuff like Freesync, mixed refresh rates, there’s even experimental support for HDR. Mint is just now rolling out any Wayland support at all and it’s not ready.
I’m actually at the point where I’d recommend Mint Cinnamon with X11 for Nvidia systems and Fedora KDE with Wayland for AMD systems. If it’s a work machine that uses integrated graphics and it’ll do spreadsheets and quickbooks.com all day, go with Mint it’s comfier.
My computer can’t upgrade to Win11 and I am buying a new one, but I’m putting Linux on it.
I have parts on the way to build a new PC. Believe it or not, also Linux.
My computer can upgrade to win11. I clearly remember the vendor stating that when I bought it last year.
I’ll continue with linux, though.
Mine too. I tried 11 and went back to 10. Honestly, only thing keeping me on Windows currently is my plex*arr servers. Guess I have a year to figure out docker.
LOL.
Put Linux on your old one.
I’ll just keep running my Win 7/Ubuntu dual boot machine tyvm
On one hand, eff Microsoft and install Debian. It’ll run on a potato.
On the other hand, I look forward to the coming glut of secondhand PCs I can install Debian on.
As melon scratchers go, that’s a honey doodle.
I think we’re gonna see a dramatic rise in Linux systems in the coming years if Microsoft keeps this course. Nvidia have started upping their Linux driver game as well so it’s gonna be a breeze to pick up decent second hand systems and reselling them with a proper OS that’ll take us to the end of the world in 24 years.
I think you’re massively underestimating the laziness of most people, and overestimating their level of concern. People. Don’t. Care.
Been reading this sentiment for twenty years now.
And yet it’s stayed true. Linux is above 1% on steam and rising every year, it’s never been easier to buy a Linux device, or install and use Linux for desktop consumer purposes, and even the tech uninformed know Microsoft is a bag of dicks.
Recent Linux gain is inflated due to Steam Deck. Their market share has been pretty stale for years at 1,5%.
That’s not really being inflated, steam deck and the prerequisite investment into proton is why most gamers can switch to Linux without encountering a single issue these days.
If that were the case, the market share at least should have doubled after people saw it was viable for desktop gaming. That didn’t happen. It only gained a predicted increase from the estimated sales of Steam Deck’s, which indeed inflates the desktop PC numbers.
So we don’t count Microsoft Surfaces running windows or windows (on arm)?
But this time it’s real! /s
Thank you MS for working so hard to boost Linux market share.
Either way, you’re net positive.
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I just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on.
As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don’t let personal preference put you at risk.
One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
looks at self
How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
They said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
I hope you are joking…
If one’s hardware is 10+ years old, I don’t think upgrading to the latest OS is likely high on their list of priorities.
Considering I have Logitech devices that don’t even work on Win11 without first disabling a bunch of security settings…why bother? When some of your major vendors don’t have drivers that work on win11 fully you might want to help them out first before forcing people onto that OS.
Nope, the vendors see that as a win too. Go buy new hardware. Stop being a poor.
just give contractors the option to sell their pcs without your bloatware for a hundred bucks cheaper or something
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