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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[–] 122 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If MS decides that my hardware is obsolete, I'll just go full Linux 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Personally I use Linux Mint on my other machine and Windows on my main PC

    Before Windows 10 goes EoL I'm going to get my NAS running a Windows VM for Fusion 360 and Lightroom and my main rig will be on Linux Mint as well

    I just need a need to finish my NAS rebuild to get everything rolling at full steam

    Unfortunately that means I need to stop buying car parts first

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    stop buying car parts first

    Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. Bikes and bike parts are cheaper. And then you can have more bikes than cars, and more bikes to buy parts for. Wait, where was I going with this again?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you wanted to get rid of windows in general, Darktable seems to be a good alternative to lightroom, for raw editing. There's a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials available.

    Not sure about Fusion 360 though... Maybe FreeCAD?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do you game at all? Gaming on Linux has made great strides, be be fair, but for a lot of titles you still need to consider a dual boot of some form of Windows, thanks to over the top anti-cheat, DRM, and developer support.

    Something to consider for the gamers out there.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same with apple, tho 😇

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Apple is king of new OS doesn't work on the old hardware though

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yes! Luckily the opensource folks are crazy and make awesome progress reversing m chips It matters to me because somday (maybe 10y) I’ll get the one of my mother for free 😂 like i got my other apple PCs (running Arch/endeavourOS)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Apple's the only hardware vendor for MacOS, so they've got slightly different incentives than Microsoft does for Windows. If a new MacOS release induces hardware purchases, that's a lot of money for Apple. If a new Windows release induces hardware purchases, Microsoft sees little of that benefit.

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