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End of 10 — Windows 10 is reaching the end of its support. Time to make the switch to Linux. (endof10.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30792652

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:

No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs

Enhanced Privacy

Good For The Planet

Community & Professional Support

Better User Control

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ve been dry-running a Linux only world for a few months now, dual booting and running everything on the Linux partition, only using windows when necessary. So far basically all my games run well under proton and the few non-free programs I care about work well enough under wine. I think tomorrow is the day I blow away the windows partition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same here. Games and general office tasks work flawlessly on Linux. I currently only launch into windows for the Adobe suite and some other image editing apps (by Topaz Labs) that I already have licenses for but that won’t run on Linux.

So far the alternatives I’ve found aren’t nearly as powerful. However I’m determined to uninstall windows by the time my licenses run out 9 or so months from now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So far I think I can live without Topaz, Photoshop and some other image stuff long term, but to be honest if that turns out to be wrong, I’m inclined to buy a cheap Mac Mini specifically for photo stuff rather than keep Windows around anymore.

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

Hm. That’s worth considering, yeah. But I want to get away from Adobe. I dislike just about every single change they made to any of their programs in the last 5 years… And any change their made to their business model in the last 15 years or so.

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

I've been on Linux for 10 months or so, but I still have Windows installed on a separate disk. I guess if I needed the space I'd worry about deleting it, but I'm good for now. I have booted into Windows only a handful of times over those 10 months, and the stretches get longer and longer.