Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million Computers To The Landfill: A Stack Of That Many Laptops Would End Up 600 Km Higher Than The Moon - Gadget Tendency
gadgettendency.com
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 This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses.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?

  • Trincapinones@lemmy.world
    61·
    11 months ago

    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”

    • Sweetie@lemmy.ml
      51·
      11 months ago

      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.

        • Sweetie@lemmy.ml
          1·
          8 months ago

          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.

      • Trincapinones@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        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?

    • ironeagl@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      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).