Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 6/27/25 8:28 AM, Joel wrote:

T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 6/26/25 3:20 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

 

I just used rufus to make a USB install drive

>
Same thing I do with me W10 customers.  I think
folks are making too big a deal out of all this.

  And when M$ suddenly and without warning makes it impossible to run
Win11 with unsupported hardware?
 

FUD!
And breaks all their embedded Windows installations
that run on i386's?
If the idiotic hardware requirements are actually
used, the programs using them will just not work.
Their AI spyware for instant.  So a blessing
in disguise.
You want folks off Windows, you have to get all
their exact software they currently run to work
on Linux.  And not Wine.  Wine is Alpha code
at best.
Think.  If they can't learn or afford anything new,
how do I transition them to Linux?  You figure that
out and we all will erect a status of you
in appreciation.