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What’s happening on Oct 14?
Windows 10 support ends and many are suggesting that instead of people moving to Windows 11, many will just move over to Linux
It’s not about people trashing/selling old ThinkPads because Win10 support ended?
Personally never realized what October 14, 2025 was about until just now but your explanation makes more sense … and it also make me realize that I should be looking for another thinkpad in the near future.
Have your Craigslist’s bookmark ready ;)
Large corps likely have extended windows support so you might not see a large computer dump into the market. But it’s worth keeping an eye out.
Yes, specificially hardware missing the prerequisites for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 iirc.
eh~ There are a variety of requirements that have to be met and can fail for various reasons.
GPU has to support having DirectX12. CPU must be 8th Gen if Intel regardless of TPM version. And of course, as you mentioned, it has to be full TPM 2.0
Doubt.
Yes, many internet nerds will finally switch to linux. Most normies will just throw millions of computers into the trash and buy win11 approved machines.
Source: my tech illiterate normie family
And we don’t actually need everyone to switch to Linux. Much like with Lemmy we need enough people to have thriving communities with Linux we need just enough people for companies to start properly supporting Linux.
I’m really more concerned about the massive e-waste. Linux communities are thriving
yeah i just watched a girl in our class group chat trying to run a windows installer on a mac
things like these remind me why linux won’t become popular
well if people stick to the proper linux way of doing things (official software repos) then that’s actually closer to what they are used to doing (apple app store) than just randomly downloading installers off the internet
linux should be a relatively easy switch for most people.
I will have to disaggree on that, i can see your point but that is only if they had someone to manage thier system until they get the hang of it, otherwise they will jump back to what they were comfortable using.
Be it mac, windows or a phone
Hi, it’s me. I’m one of those people. Currently test driving OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in KDE Plasma on an old Chromebook. Liking Linux well enough so far, and i have no special fondness for windows. Just need to find/learn Linux alternatives or work arounds for a few key things, like Cricut and SketchUp. Then I feel like I could easily switch over my main machine and never look back.
https://alternativeto.net/ is a good place to start looking for the software that meets your requirements
Thanks for the tip and the link!
I can speak from experience on the Cricut: you’ll still need Design Space to actually do the cutting, but you can use Inkscape to make your designs, just export them to .svg files and load those into Design Space on an old tablet or something. There’s currently no alternative to Design Space for the actual cutting, due to Cricut’s proprietary nature.
Could you run it in a VM or Wine?
Didn’t try a VM, but it definitely does not work on WINE.
Edit: just did a quick search, it does work with a VM. I also thought about something like Waydroid to run the Android app, or maybe a port kind of like Sober does for Roblox, but I have tried neither and I’m going to sleep soon, so hopefully I’ll remember about it later lol
Thanks for the heads-up. I don’t use the Cricut all the time so an old tablet will probably do fine but I’ll also look into how to spin up VMs for things like this. Although I doubt my chrultrabook will be able to run windows due to its anemic specs.
Chromebook can run Android apps with the stock OS, so you’re probably good there.
Unfortunately it no longer has the chrome OS and is running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead but I was able to get a design cut using my phone today. My old tablet refused to connect to the cutter, I think it might be too old.
Alternativeto.net is a good resource for finding alternatives by filterable tags including platform! Also wine and proton have come a long ways, many windows apps work just fine in a small wine or proton container.
Thanks for the tips and the link!
As if anyone would care that support ended. People are annoyed by updates anyway
I did move to Mint to try it before October, but I am underwhelmed :(
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Crusty, cynical folks, entirely unlike and unrelated to myself, could be tempted to name it the Beginning of Eternal October for Linux.
but why Oct 14, 2025?
I would also like to know please
School is updating to windows 11. Thier old 'made for windows 8 (not windows 8.1. Windows 8) laptops are being thrown out. I gladly rescuced a few.
Poor things were running windows 10 until last week
That’s a fun box of goodies
Wouldn’t that be something if that is also the day that SteamOS and HL3 comes out? One can dream.
Me at my tech job frothing over the old laptops I’ll “dispose” of
