nixCraft 🐧
"240 million PCs could end up in landfills when Windows 10 support ends"
Sure.
Or they could be repurposed with #Lnux or Chrome OS Flex, or #FreeBSD, and we can stop being so freaking dramatic.
If you just browse, watch Netflix, shop, net banking, etc, Linux distributions like Mint or Ubuntu could save you money. It is an environment-friendly option.
Robert Link
Joseph Lamoree
@nixCraft What if you need an OS that supports the latest ransomware?
Bot4Sale
@nixCraft A lot will end up on reseller sites...ebay, amazon, rebushed IT stores, etc
Worik
@nixCraft or even better they could be designed with end of life disposal in mind
zheng3_jim
@nixCraft Airgap ‘em and use them to run your CNC machine/laser cutter/3d printer until they finally choke to death on shop dust.
Offbeatmammal
@nixCraft problem is with so many of those machines drivers are a pain with so many proprietary bits of hardware making it daunting for a Linux newbie, especially on laptops. I do go through a process, when we last moved, of converting older machines to Linux and struggled with some, but eventually got everything working before giving them away. I know of at least a couple still going strong :)
nixCraft 🐧
@jlamoree haha. I see what you did there
nixCraft 🐧
@robchapman maybe it is just AI writing stories for everyone.
ЯØ81И
@nixCraft Not Reuters as well...seems like all journalists at the moment are filling pages with rubbish, that is not based in reality
LA Sooner
@nixCraft I;m still running Windows 7. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Ibaudia
@nixCraft Putting the environmental impact aside, this sounds like a lot of good deals for home server, theatre, etc. PCs in the near future.
Alex White-Robinson
@nixCraft time to fork something and call it landfill linux
EJ
@nixCraft could it finally be? the year of the linux desktop?
nobody you care about
@nixCraft also, if windows 10 wasn't such a trash operating system on lame hardware most of those would be skimmed by hardware enthusiasts and loved again like the pre-7 systems. So really who's fault is all this ewaste but a company who no longer provides a good or service anybody wants to buy and instead hangs on as a corporate leach with a dying niche.
Ness
@nixCraft Oh, absolutely. I've got two low-powered Apple laptops that are abandonware. They work great on Lubuntu. Imagine what you can do with hardware that isn't so locked down.
To anyone reading this who is anxious about making their own DVD/USB, go to your library, they may have a Linux DVD on hand. Borrow a DVD drive and run it. I started that way. I'm happily burning my own stuff, now.
Good luck! :blobpeek:
Farhan Tajuddin
@nixCraft I see people still using Windows 7 laptops or PCs in 2023, so I don't see much problem with it. Not everyone needs to have the latest and greatest.
panton41
@nixCraft Based off my experience, at least home users will just keep using them oblivious of the end of support until they break. That's assuming they're even turned on.
Joel Pomales
@nixCraft the following is a true story. It may be lengthy.
About five years ago I worked at a company that divested itself from another. This meant new computers, new infrastructure, the works.
One of the things I was asked to do (I managed the Service Desk) was to coordinate the collection and replacement of all of the laptops deployed in the company with brand new Dells. The average age of these laptops was about 3 years, give or take. Some were less than a year old. 1/
Joel Pomales
@nixCraft I was told they needed to go back to Dell. I had employees stop me on the hallways and ask me if they could purchase their laptops from the company. Others enquired about donating them to a school or other organizations.
Nope. They all had to go back.
I want to remain optimistic and I want to think that most, if not all, were refurbished, or responsibly recycled. I mean, these are older laptops that could run Mint, for example, without a flaw. 2/
Joel Pomales
@nixCraft and that's why I like to buy refurbs on eBay. These are computers that run well, and for my use case they are perfect. I have three such laptops.
I'm tempted to get a @frameworkcomputer or a @system76 laptop one of these days. I may get it refurbished, though. But the fact that these computers may end up in a landfill because #Microsoft stops supporting its POS operating system rubs me the wrong way. 😒
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