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I would have updated if it wasn't for Windows 11 requiring a specific hardware. I'll stick to Windows 10, when it dies, I'll probably force myself to switch to Fedora or something.
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Yes and No. A lot of folks will go with newer hardware due to lacking TPM, etc. support, but those people were likely to upgrade at 1-3 year intervals anyway. A majority of users will just keep running Windows 10, with or without sec updates until they can no longer buy a system with 10. There are still Windows 7 and Vista installs out there, running every day, and I don't mean outliers. I know a clinic that runs Win…
In all fairness, Windows 3.11 is so ancient that it is probably immune to (or overlooked by) most modern threats.
For example, Windows XP doesn't support modern and commonly implemented TLS.
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How's things like sleep, hibernate, system wide touchpad gestures, HW video decode and fractional scaling working in the land of linux these days? I know if you can live without those then Linux is daily drivable for a long time, but I need all of them to work flawlessly, and every time I try Linux on my bare metal laptop a lot of those features are still missing, janky or require research and tinkering. I really wan…
Don't forget HDR on monitors and gesture support on trackpads.
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Don't forget HDR on monitors and gesture support on trackpads.
Out of your combined lists, HDR is the only one that would cause issues. Although it really depends on the distro.
I would have updated if it wasn't for Windows 11 requiring a specific hardware. I'll stick to Windows 10, when it dies, I'll probably force myself to switch to Fedora or something.
And we all know this a limit made on purpose (by a marketing team?). They probably could use this additional hardware everytime it's available on new PCs and allow a kind of legacy mode for Windows 11 on old PCs. But hey, some marketing genius came up with the idea to sell Windows 10 ESU (Extended Security Updates) membership to end consumers this time.
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Don't forget HDR on monitors and gesture support on trackpads.
Out of your combined lists, HDR is the only one that would cause issues. Although it really depends on the distro.
Do I get this right? Windows 10 end of support will push many, many people to modern hardware? Seems like HW companies will have very good year 2025/2026 brb purchasing stocks
Yes and No. A lot of folks will go with newer hardware due to lacking TPM, etc. support, but those people were likely to upgrade at 1-3 year intervals anyway. A majority of users will just keep running Windows 10, with or without sec updates until they can no longer buy a system with 10. There are still Windows 7 and Vista installs out there, running every day, and I don't mean outliers. I know a clinic that runs Win…
So I have about 2 years to prepare to run some flavour of Gaming Linux on my desktop, cool. Thankfully, Valve's continued and dedicated support for the Steam Deck has made this a very easy alternative to consider.