Throw it away.
Gently
In my direction
Why gently?
Hold on to your butts.
Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.
That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines…
Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.
This seems much more likely lol
Very good point!
I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….
I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4’s in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.
Microsoft: “Just throw it away, bro.” Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.
Microsoft: “Can’t run our AI dataminer?”
end of support for windows 10
beginning of support for linux mint
Yeah, my old desktop computer is getting turned into my first dedicated Linux machine and my current desktop isn’t getting updated to 11 until October 13th.
i just switched my laptop to mint and my desktop is next :) surprisingly so many “windows only” steam games run perfectly fine in linux
Except for some games with Anti-Cheat you can basically play anything that runs on Windows on Linux too
and really i wouldn’t want to play those ones anyway :)
So far I’m aware of fortnite, fc, battlefield and destiny. Which I don’t want to play anyways
Sweet, bunch of cheap laptops about to flood the market
Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I’d have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space
Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?
It will be difficult, but technically possible. You’d have to ensure bitlocker is disabled on your windows drive. If you’re not sure what that is, don’t assume that means it’s not enabled. Windows does enable it by default in some cases. It encrypts your drive and you won’t be able to access it.
But in all honesty, I’d recommend just starting from scratch if steam games are what you’re most worried about. First, some of them might not work on Linux. Second, you may encounter strange issues that require redownloading much of your library anyway. Lastly, you’ll want to transfer them to a drive with a Linux file system which will take time. That’s if you even have the drive space to spare. More likely is you’ll be formatting that drive anyway to a Linux filesystem, wiping the contents anyway.
Even with slow internet, redownloading games as needed will be way easier and likely faster.
If you’re unsure what distro to go with, I recommend going with Bazzite. It’s a distro optimized for gaming and is an atomic distro. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it, just know that for most casual users, an atomic distro makes way more sense and is much less likely to break. Additionally, if you have nvidia hardware, the drivers come pre installed so it’ll work right out of the box.
Just copy
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/to/home/yourname/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/and Steam will recognize those games are already present when you try to download them.
I just installed Mint instead.
What a coincidence, the end of my support for windows is also approaching.
jk I srubbed that shit from my personal devices years ago after graduating.
Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 … what’s the issue?
Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.
Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?
I used WinXP till '19 with no signs of infections. Just extracting the .wim image of the PC was enough to trigger Defender on Win10. It was infected.
Even JavaScript can infect you.
Assuming your family does online banking and brokerage you then become a jumping off point for malware.
Just recycle that shit! Here’s my…and address where you can recycle it to…
Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading
The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*
Is it relevant to the email at all? Nope! But we’ll keep them addicted to OneDrive out of fear!
That moment when Microsoft tells people to throw away perfectly good working computers because they’re running Windows 10. When Windows 10 was just coming out or had just come out, Microsoft promised that Windows 10 would be the last OS of theirs, and there would only be updates. Also Microsoft is constantly sending messages to people running Windows 10 urging them to update.
I remember that “promise” too. And here we are
I really wish there was something regulatory that could be done about this. There are millions of perfectly good fully working computers that are going to go in the fucking trash because of this. I understand the desire for a TPM on every machine. It makes sense in a way. But the pure environmental impact is just indefensible. All of those computers had a significant environmental footprint to build them and ship them and again to dispose of them plus building and shipping their replacements.
If Microsoft had such a hard-on for TPM, they should have worked with computer manufacturers to make some sort of retrofit system or way of easily determining if a TPM can be added to an existing computer
Holy shit they really just said, “throw it away”. Troglodytes!
Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations
And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can’t support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?
I mean, I’ll always take a cheap Linux box…
Linux
A lot of components are scavenged for repairs. You’d be surprised how many POS systems run on XP still.
