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Whatβs happening on Oct 14?
Windows 10 support ends and many are suggesting that instead of people moving to Windows 11, many will just move over to Linux
It's not about people trashing/selling old ThinkPads because Win10 support ended?
Personally never realized what October 14, 2025 was about until just now but your explanation makes more sense ... and it also make me realize that I should be looking for another thinkpad in the near future.
Have your Craigslistβs bookmark ready ;)
Large corps likely have extended windows support so you might not see a large computer dump into the market. But itβs worth keeping an eye out.
Yes, specificially hardware missing the prerequisites for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 iirc.
eh~ There are a variety of requirements that have to be met and can fail for various reasons.
GPU has to support having DirectX12. CPU must be 8th Gen if Intel regardless of TPM version. And of course, as you mentioned, it has to be full TPM 2.0
Doubt.
Yes, many internet nerds will finally switch to linux. Most normies will just throw millions of computers into the trash and buy win11 approved machines.
Source: my tech illiterate normie family
And we don't actually need everyone to switch to Linux. Much like with Lemmy we need enough people to have thriving communities with Linux we need just enough people for companies to start properly supporting Linux.
I'm really more concerned about the massive e-waste. Linux communities are thriving
yeah i just watched a girl in our class group chat trying to run a windows installer on a mac
things like these remind me why linux won't become popular
well if people stick to the proper linux way of doing things (official software repos) then that's actually closer to what they are used to doing (apple app store) than just randomly downloading installers off the internet
linux should be a relatively easy switch for most people.
I will have to disaggree on that, i can see your point but that is only if they had someone to manage thier system until they get the hang of it, otherwise they will jump back to what they were comfortable using.
Be it mac, windows or a phone
Hi, it's me. I'm one of those people. Currently test driving OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in KDE Plasma on an old Chromebook. Liking Linux well enough so far, and i have no special fondness for windows. Just need to find/learn Linux alternatives or work arounds for a few key things, like Cricut and SketchUp. Then I feel like I could easily switch over my main machine and never look back.
https://alternativeto.net/ is a good place to start looking for the software that meets your requirements
Thanks for the tip and the link!
Alternativeto.net is a good resource for finding alternatives by filterable tags including platform! Also wine and proton have come a long ways, many windows apps work just fine in a small wine or proton container.
Thanks for the tips and the link!
I can speak from experience on the Cricut: you'll still need Design Space to actually do the cutting, but you can use Inkscape to make your designs, just export them to .svg files and load those into Design Space on an old tablet or something. There's currently no alternative to Design Space for the actual cutting, due to Cricut's proprietary nature.
Could you run it in a VM or Wine?
Didn't try a VM, but it definitely does not work on WINE.
Edit: just did a quick search, it does work with a VM. I also thought about something like Waydroid to run the Android app, or maybe a port kind of like Sober does for Roblox, but I have tried neither and I'm going to sleep soon, so hopefully I'll remember about it later lol
Thanks for the heads-up. I don't use the Cricut all the time so an old tablet will probably do fine but I'll also look into how to spin up VMs for things like this. Although I doubt my chrultrabook will be able to run windows due to its anemic specs.
Chromebook can run Android apps with the stock OS, so you're probably good there.
As if anyone would care that support ended. People are annoyed by updates anyway
I did move to Mint to try it before October, but I am underwhelmed :(
Underwhelmed? Do you miss random update restarts? We can help you out to have that if you like π
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I miss my resolution not randomly locking itself onto 480p and requiring restart to fix (probably because I have Nvidia GPU).
I miss having 150% scaling option since 100% makes text too small on my 4K monitor and 200% is way too large. I miss the scaling actually applying to all apps, rather then bunch of them ignoring it.
I miss being able to play a new game without messing around with Wine settings and other crap for half an hour beforehand.
I miss Jellyfin player not locking-up randomly at an end of video.
I miss not having to reinstall steam because the package manager offered me the native package while flatpak apparently works better.
I miss shit just working most of the time.
That being said, it was much less painful then any of my previous attempts to use Linux. Almost everything could at least be made to work with a bit of tinkering. There certainly was a lot of improvements to ease of use since last time, but it is still not at the level of windows.
I guess the issue is, that mint is not on wayland yet
I have distro on wayland and proprietary nvidia drivers running (endeavourOS!
Yeah, I figured as much. I tried to install Pop! Os before falling back onto mint when installation failed for some reason and I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it.
I never had an issue with this on Windows outside a few Games.
I was so far able to get all of them working in Wine but it's just a waste of my free time to do that for every game.
Everyone so far recommended flatpaks. Idk. Why is there more than one way to install them in the first place?
Yes, except on windows it takes on average about a year for an issue to pop up. On Linux, I had issue before I finished installing the OS.
PopOS would require some βhackingβ as well to enable wayland, iirc
I think, for a person like you, a fedora spin (pretty up to date, but stable and not rolling) would be best fit for you, but please correct me if I am wrong.
Most of your problems are probably down to NVIDIA π
As for wine settings, why are you messing with wine when you have steam? Are your games supported?
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Crusty, cynical folks, entirely unlike and unrelated to myself, could be tempted to name it the Beginning of Eternal October for Linux.
but why Oct 14, 2025?
I would also like to know please