Experts say the end of Windows 10 support could turn 240 million PCs into e-waste

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[–]Myocarditis-Man[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

More dirt cheap/free Linux computers than one could possibly want.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Don't all of them have fatally insecure chips (SPECTRE, etc.)?

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, are you assuming the latest computers don't have fatally insecure chips? If so, I have some beachfront property in West Virginia to sell you.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I did not assume any such thing.

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/west-virginia/west-virginia-beaches/

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol, for varying definitions of "beach". I've been to a couple of those.

[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

but I thought....climate change and all that!!!!

[–]catfishrising 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Linuxbros, prepare to preach and convert your friends and family.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Conversion is easy; long term support is a drag when your family is stupid.

Just to make people hate Linux, Linux distributions never provide truly long term backwards compatible support. Meaning that the same configuration files will continue to work forever even after a decade.

To be fair on Windows there's not even any point in configuring any system services. I honestly don't see why anyone would want to invest their time and brain cells into knowing anything about a proprietary solution that can be made worthless at any point in time (which has already happened).

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Way ahead of you!

[–]Myocarditis-Man[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not just Linuxbros. If Google is smart, they will launch a campaign to convert all these old machines to Chrome OS Flex "for free". It'd be easy theft of market share from Microsoft.

"Microsoft doesn't want to support your hardware anymore, so we will. Install Chrome OS Flex today and say goodbye to Microsoft Edge forever! It's free."

Hell, Windows has become just as much of a privacy dumpster fire anyway. In fact Windows has become worse than Chrome OS, because only one of these two feels like staying in the sleaziest roach motel in town, with nag screens, dark patterns and popups everywhere. Google may not have a great privacy reputation, but at least they know better than to do this.

[–]catfishrising 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah. There's so much that could go wrong with old hardware. Say, you install Chrome OS, and coincidentally a capacitor pops the next week, then you'd tell everyone "Google's system exploded my computer!". You know there are people that clueless.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Remember when Microsoft called Windows 10 the 'last Windows'? Aged like milk.

[–]catfishrising 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I recall it was one guy's mistake, not an official statement.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

English is a difficult language for Americans. ;)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

😄

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fuck that shit. I'm still running a Wondows 7 laptop and it works just fine.

[–]carn0ld03 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Linux.