Does anybody know how/whether this is going to affect hardware obsolescence?
I am not going to worry about it, sounds like a problem for my IT department since they are the ones who insist I use windows for work.
Me, I will be just fine on my Linux gaming PC.
The good thing about Linux is if your distribution makes boneheaded decisions like MS, you can switch to another one.
That and the other good thing: no distro will make decisions that are even in the ballpark of insanity of those by big tech corps.
Oh, they do those all the time.
And then either quietly backpedal once everybody complains or stick to it until everybody moves and they are dead.
no distro will make decisions that are even in the ballpark of insanity of those by big tech corps.
Manjaro dev team enters the room.
Or fork it and make new distribution based on it minus the annoyimg bits
I have no Idea.
But Linux might be a hardware obsolescence counter-mesure.Probably going to make a lot of hardware obsolete for Windows, a lot of people with older systems are either going to stick to their current version without updating (no updates could mean security issues) or switch to Linux for better hardware support. This is assuming that MS decides to support less and less older hardware with each update.
I think I could do Linux. I used to do MS-DOS. I’ve got a 10-yr-old Dell laptop to experiment with. I’ve been advised to start with Mint. Is there something “for dummies” with very clear instructions?
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Just be aware that Linux running from a flash drive will probably be quite slow compared to real Linux.
Put an SSD into a USB 3.2 enclosure, and use Ventoy to add ISOs. You can select the distro at boot, and it runs fast enough that the difference between an installed drive isn’t noticeable.
The difference compared to a flash drive is brilliant, it’s ridiculously fast in comparison.
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