This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm really excited for when the health authority I'm working for that uses win10 needs to frantically switch every machine to win11... Going to be such a relaxing time
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You’re using a consumer version of Windows? Businesses can pay for extended support.
Oh true, forgot about that. In that case we won't think about it for a few years I'm sure...
I've suggested we modify a Linux distro to use instead, but no one seems to want to pay for the setup. Which is fair I guess.
Hopefully instead of turning into a bunch of e-waste, a bunch of "useless" desktops flood refurbishers, and refurbished desktops become even cheaper. I wouldn't mind replacing my dying media server.
With the different distros of Linux, do different things support different distros? Like Zoom is support on Arch but not Mint, and Steam is supported in Mint but not Arch; or if an app supports Linux, it is on all distros? And if there is differences, do you have different partitions for different types of Linux?
I'll probably put windows enterprise iot lts on a vm in case I ever need to use a windows computer.
every few years on Linux Discord groups across the internet
"Hi, Windows just stopped support, you guys got any suggestions?"
Win10 LTSC still has quite a few years left.
It’s not available for individual consumers though unless you pirate it, isn’t it? (which makes it perfectly good reason to pirate it)
I'd rather pay for security updates than invite more AI and Microsoft sponsored spyware onto my computer...
My steam deck has taught me that I'll be completely OK running linuxn(probably arch) as my daily driver with a win 11 dual boot (maybe just a vm?) for things that simply won't work on proton.
SteamOS is not the same as its base Arch Linux. If you want something slightly easier but still Arch-based, try EndeavourOS (but please not Manjaro).
If you have the time, try switching on your own terms within the next year. It's almost guaranteed you'll run into issues, but trying to dual-boot now rather than later gives you all the time you need to figure it out before MS forces you on Windows 11.
