Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million Computers To The Landfill: A Stack Of That Many Laptops Would End Up 600 Km Higher Than The Moon - Gadget Tendency
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Analysts at Canalys estimate that 240 million PCs could end up in the scrap heap after October 2025, when Microsoft ends free support for Windows 10.

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      Depends honestly but for most people it will work fine if you use something like Pop OS, Nobara, or other distros that set it up for you (or you know how to set it up yourself but that’s unlikely to be the case)

    • beforanEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      It seems very anecdotal at the moment (both for success and problems), but I think it depends a lot on what card and drivers, and the situation is improving.

      Personally (though as I say, anecdotal) I got a new card (16GB 4060Ti) and switched from Win10 to Linux as a daily driver in October, and have had no issues.

      Some info:

      • I’ve installed Bazzite, based on Fedora universal blue and comes with proprietary Nvidia drivers and configured to support a bunch of gaming stuff
        • lots of distros optionally come with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, like Garuda, Pop!OS…
        • I picked Bazzite since I have a steam deck (which convinced me desktop gaming Linux was viable) and it aims to be steam os like, and as a dev the universal blue approach appealed to me
      • I’m using X11 for now. While there are anecdotal successes with Wayland, they seem to be fewer than with X
      • I have multiple monitors with different aspect and resolution (but same scaling) and haven’t experienced any issues