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Weird everyone suggests Mint, when it's way less user friendly then KDE Fedora. I mean, I guess on old hardware Mint is good, but anything newer (like the last 4-5 years) Fedora is pretty much set and forget.
Same with gaming, Bazzite is a WHOLE lot better than Mint.
what are the opinions on Bazzite, Garuda, Trisquel? are these ideal for those coming from windows?
the first two can be, but i don't recommend trisquel to those coming from windows
Damn. My 10 year old HP all in one is gonna be bricked? Damn shame
Fuck it man, I'll take it, you can still spin that up with Linux and run a bunch of microservices on it. Not a great form factor for a server, but guess what, if these China tariffs take off, you're gonna be so glad you have a 10 year old machine to have around for extra compute power, since buying new compute will be obscenely costly. (Assuming you're in the USA of course, if you're in Europe you'll be fine)
I gotta figure out how to transfer my PLC software first lol
Install Linux if you still want use your old computer
nah, for old computers, you can't get anything better than MenuetOS or its fork, KolibriOS. That will run on my flipflops too. recommended system requirements: Pentium MMX (this is literally from 1997), 32 mb ram (yes, you read that right), 1.4 mb (entire operating system size with preinstalled programs, yes it is something else), any vga adapter released after 1995
Not particularly lol. Probably gonna retire it and give it a heroes funeral for lasting as long as it did
Download the Windows 11 ISO and tick an option to mitigate the new requirements in Rufus. That's all you have to do. Or download the Windows 10 IoT iso from massgrave. Supported until 2030-something.
I think it needs to be retired. I strictly using it for streaming shows and it's about a 30% chance that I have to do a hard reboot for that to work. It's had 2 factory resets and a number of internal cleanings. It's dying bro. It's time to put it down
Fair enough. Tho if you do discover some functional hardware that's unsupported by W11, know that you don't have to turn to Linux at all.
Does anyone else find these OS wars silly? To me an OS is a tool and you should be using whatever tool is best suited for the job. For me I'm regularly switching between all 3 major OS's.
I've got windows systems, Linux systems and MacOS all under regular use at home
I think MacOS and Linux are viable OS's whereas Windows is shit and deserves to be nowhere near a computer, maybe a toaster or something idk
Uh oh, prepare to be downvoted to oblivion for such a balanced take (j/k... I hope).
Ow I can upgrade, I just blocked TPM motherboard side to stop windows from doing it.
But in the end I really would like to give Linux a shot, these days I basically only play steam game or watch a movie, most of it should be easy enough nowadays in linux
Linux doesn't run what I need, getting some form of LTSC is my only option.
You can get the LTSC ISOs directly from Microsoft, and activate with https://massgrave.dev/
Thanks for the link, that is where I will be going to do just that.
I would use Linux if I could but sadly I can't.
Nah, not for me. I've known to use Windows OSes beyond their EOL support. I remember having still been on Windows XP while everyone else went to Vista and then to Win7. When I got to Win8, it was only because I bought another computer from a friend that had it, that was how I got upgraded.
I don't abide by when Microsoft wants me to upgrade by, if they can pull their heads out of their asses (unlikely) for Windows 12, then I might consider.
Do you disconnect your EOL machines from the internet then?
Bc using an OS that doesn't get security updates is just asking for trouble, especially if you connect it to the internet
I've not once ever contracted a virus or anything malicious whenever I've had an EOL OS online.
I'm not that fucking stupid. You just need to know your shit and know where not to go, if there is anywhere to go.
That’s not necessarily going to happen to Windows 10 the day support ends, but do you really want to gamble on when it will?
right? end of support has never meant end of useful life in my experience. I went from 98 to vista. don't inconvenience yourself is my main advice to people looking to switch. Shit I'll probably be installing win 10 LTSC at some point even though I'm all in on Linux as a daily driver already.