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

On 2025/6/28 2:48:5, T wrote:

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?

(Keep imaging.)>

FUD!

And breaks all their embedded Windows installations
that run on i386's?

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You want folks off Windows, you have to get all
their exact software they currently run to work

Yes. Many users don't care - or, in a quite large proportion, even
_know_ - what the underlying OS is. (And it _can_ be argued that that's
OK; _I_ don't know what OS my TV, set-top-boxes, printer, etc. are, and
probably wouldn't be concerned ditto if buying a new washing machine.)

on Linux.  And not Wine.  Wine is Alpha code
at best.

(Never knowingly used it.)>

Think.  If they can't learn or afford anything new,

That's two different things. I now could afford, more so than in the
past; however, in the past I would have been willing to do more on the
learn side. I now have less enthusiasm for that than I once did -
basically, I enjoy doing other things more.

how do I transition them to Linux?  You figure that
out and we all will erect a status of you
in appreciation.

Status == stick-in-the-mud && miser (-:
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