• InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m just waiting for the EOL of window 10 to see which of the following will happen:

    1. Many PCs will stop getting updates, people don’t care
    2. Many PCs will be replaced for windows 11
    3. Turns out people already have replaced their PCs due to other reasons
    4. Microsoft removes the hardware requirements
    5. People switch to another OS
    6. People just don’t buy a home PC anymore
    7. ???
    8. Profit???
    • Tux@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      240 millions PC will become e-waste if Win10 reaches EoL

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        EoL doesn’t mean it will stop completely; people will probably keep using it till they can’t anymore, like pc becoming too slow or their home banking site not working.

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          Realistically it will live for as long as Google Chrome still works and sites don’t start getting picky about TLS 1.3.

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          I’ve got an Asus eeePC running WinXP. It’s air-gapped and the wi-fi is disabled in BIOS. All it does is play music, connected to dumb speakers. I update the music periodically via USB. Remarkably reliable and long-lived hardware.

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      6 is becoming increasingly more common. Anecdotally, almost all of the gamers I know use consoles and have a phone for all of their “computer needs.” One of my friends probably wouldn’t even use his if it weren’t for VR Chat.

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      My bet is that they are gonna surrender and will remove restriccions to W11. I doubt that a non-it person gonna install Linux, at least that, some companies decided to resell old~ computers with linux preinstalled that’s the only way

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        My money is on MS kicking the can down the road and adding another year or two to the support last minute, then not fixing any of the issues with 11.

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          The paid extended security update program is going to run until 2028, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC is going to have extended support all the way until 2032.

          They have stated that ESU is going to be available to consumers as well, though not for how much - but somewhere between the $61 of the commercial, and $1 (really) of the education license, with the price doubling every year.

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      I’ll save you the wait. It’s 1 with quite a bit of 6.

      Normal people just don’t need PCs that much any more. Nearly everything that people did on a PC you can do on a phone.

      If you can’t do it on a phone, then it’s usually called work, and employers can replace things as needed. Although we’ve still got customers using variants of Windows XP, so don’t hold your breath. Some employers just aren’t beholden to higher ups that demand security audits.