catch22@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square630fedilinkarrow-up11.12Kfile-text
arrow-up11.12Kexternal-linkMicrosoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025www.tomshardware.comcatch22@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square630fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenoodlejetski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 months agosame as how it “popped off” when Windows XP got discontinued?
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoY’all need to let it go. Linux is already mainstream, they just don’t advertise as much. Or, at all.
minus-squaremihies@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoWindows Vista didn’t make many PCs obsolete, though.
minus-squarenoodlejetski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 months agowhen XP was about to stop receiving support in 2014 (and thus becoming obsolete with no upgrade path), people online were all kinds of excited about owners of all those old PCs moving to Linux.
same as how it “popped off” when Windows XP got discontinued?
Y’all need to let it go. Linux is already mainstream, they just don’t advertise as much. Or, at all.
Windows Vista didn’t make many PCs obsolete, though.
when XP was about to stop receiving support in 2014 (and thus becoming obsolete with no upgrade path), people online were all kinds of excited about owners of all those old PCs moving to Linux.