@alphasixtyfive @hankarus @nixCraft

200 million computers running windows will be abandoned by Microsoft, no support, no new malware removal, no virus help, abandonware.

If you own a Windows 10 machine, you can throw it onto the far too big tech junkpile, or put linux on it, ffs, please.

Or give a thousand away to schools or free computer activists in cities everywhere.

Any Windows 10 machine can be saved, reborn, made ACTUALLY USEFUL, without surveilance.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-draconian-windows-11-restrictions-will-send-an-estimated-240-million-pcs-to-the-landfill-when-windows-10-hits-end-of-life-in-2025

@kevinrns @alphasixtyfive @hankarus @nixCraft I think that there should be tribunals held for how much E-Waste is going to be caused by Microsoft's intentional euthanization of reasonable computers...

We as Society already hold Apple to a high standard as we should and I think it's high time we also start pointing some serious blame at Microsoft for a copycatting apple when it comes to e-waste. We can do better as a society and we need to and we should..

@Vonskinnback @kevinrns @alphasixtyfive @hankarus @nixCraft that's ironic because Apple has about a 7-year fixed life span on their laptops and desktops and they're consistency allows me to then make Capital purchases on a regular basis every 2/3 of a decade knowing the exact lifespan of my Hardware on the other hand Microsoft is going to cost me $6,000 this year because they're absolutely asinine requirements for Windows 11 means that my 7th gen I5 Panasonic Toughbook that I use for my work in the field and in my lab is it going to be supported in about a year. And to replace it I have to buy a brand new model not a used one because only those support 11.

Apple has cost me $4,000 in the last 10 years because in 2012 I bought a Mac Pro Tower then I ran until last year. And I just replaced it this last July with a M2 Ultra Mac studio...

Maybe I'm a unique use case but in my case I see far more damage done as a business from Microsoft and they're unpredictable lifespans.

@Vonskinnback @Warlockofwires @alphasixtyfive @hankarus @nixCraft

Just dl linux for all of them

@kevinrns @Vonskinnback @alphasixtyfive @hankarus @nixCraft you can't just use Linux though...

Virtual reality games that I've spent 10,000 hours in in The Last 5 Years for my day job for engineering stuff doesn't just work in Linux now things like OpenOffice are wonderful gimp wonderful and thank God DaVinci resolve has a really good Linux version...

installing Linux is not the hard part it's the programs you run afterwards that can make or break the OS being useful.
It's like telling my friends to just go buy a Mac even though they're hardcore gamers.

There is no just anymore nothing is that simple....

To quote the arbiter from halo.3..

Were it's so easy....