Plan for Windows 10 End of Support

Post by Alifatisk » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:34 PM UTC

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #43

Alifatisk wrote: post #38

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> You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well. Oh, because the update button in the settings says my hardware does not meet the requirements.

I meant if you do a clean install via UUP dump generated ISO or a Rufus modified ISO, then it bypassed the TPM check. Updating an existing install on non compliant HW via the official update button obviously doesn't work (unless there's some hacks for it that came out, I don't know I always do a clean install between major versions since I don't want all the years of cruft and changes from one version to be carried o…

Post by sonicanatidae » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:37 PM UTC

ashleyn wrote: post #29

sonicanatidae wrote: post #5

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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…

If neither the Windows 8 machine nor the Windows 3.11 machine are networked with any path to the internet, they can limp along for quite some time without replacement. The bigger worry is this ancient hardware blowing a cap and leaving you unable to complete some vital function for the week.

Post by oynqr » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #48

binkHN wrote: post #47

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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 use a ThinkPad, so I prefer the TrackPoint and rarely use the TrackPad, but everything else works excellently, especially with KDE.

>but everything else works excellently, especially with KDE Everything else? Including Wayland, fractional scaling on non-Qt apps, sleep, hibernate and HW video decode? Yeah, I know if you have very common HW and restricted use cases, like track-point, USB mouse, display without fractional scaling, not using sleep/hibernate etc, then everything just works but those also "just worked" on Linux for the past 20 years. I…

Post by prmoustache » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #14

haxial wrote: post #11

I moved from Windows 10 to Linux at the end of 2021 and don't miss it a bit. Except for Steam, Reaper, and Discord, all other software I use is FOSS, and it's so dang good! I feel bad for the people who have to stick with Windows because they need to use Adobe or Microsoft products. Desktop Linux is in such a good place right now, and it's only getting better thanks to all the great developers.

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…

Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:41 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #3

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.