Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
Analysts at Canalys estimate that 240 million PCs could end up in the scrap heap after October 2025, when Microsoft ends free support for Windows 10.
With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?
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I'll install linux on my gaming rig when w10 support ends, I hate w11
Why not try it now?
I did, discord was a mess (the systray icon not working and couldn't stream audio), no parsec host support and other little things.
Yes, there are alternatives/workarounds but it's too much of a hustle to play some games if the alternative is w10, I already know how to optimize it/solve common issues and for this specific case "it just works"
Do you mind me asking which Distro you had used? I recently switched from w10 and haven't had any issues with discord or audio.
Which distro did you use? I have a win 10 laptop and I might switch over to a Linux distro
I been using Nobara instead of Windows for about 4 months, so far haven't had any major issues. Updater works and hasn't broken anything yet, found installs Nvidia drivers without issue. Only issue I have is that the few times I stream on discord for friends it doesn't capture audio.
I tried Linux Mint, then I switched to Nobara and I had issues with discord in both, the systray icon not showing green when I was speaking/muted and I was unable to screen share a program with sound (then I looked up and found it's a discord problem not giving a shit about linux users).
Then the gaming part was pretty messy, specially when I tried to run pirate games or games like league of legends, I spent 2 days trying to make league of legends work with lutris (i don't play that game anymore so now it shouldn't be a problem)
The funny thing is that I have a linux server on which I self host a lot of services and I've been tinkering with it for +4 years now, I'm pretty used to Debian and Fedora in the terminal, but when it comes to desktop I get lost pretty easily.
By the way, which distro do you use?
The discord thing is improving (slowly), also partly it now recognizes Linux games launched from steam, but not proton ones. I haven't tried lutris or anything yet, but I haven't booted into windows for weeks now.
I've also become more comfortable with Linux in general so that's likely helped too.
I also have issues with Discord, they just don't get the linux paradigm. Running it in a browser seems to work okay though (I use Firefox).