Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

The Register ^ | 28 January 2025 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[ShadowAce]

[Kleon]

I’m still on Windows 7 for the email. What’s a good Linux for conservatives?

[C210N]

eeeks.... and to think I completely missed Win8, Win9 and now Win10.

If my Win7 goes bonkers, I’ll have to revert to MS-DOS.

[BipolarBob]

What’s a good Linux for conservatives?

I started out on Linux Zorin but was unable to update it for unknown reasons so I also have Linux Mint. The best thing about Linux is it has never slowed down for me. Windows, no matter what I did, kept s l o w i n g down to a crawl. Linux is just as fast now as the day I started. I can't go back.

[ShadowAce]

What’s a good Linux for conservatives?

Pretty much any of them, as you will not be supporting them with your dollars.

Anyone outside of your house probably won't know the details, either.

[Responsibility2nd]

If you’re seriously into gaming or have a need for high level business computing - go with Linux.

If you’re in the majority of PC users - Get a Chromebook which uses a Linux-based system with a user-friendly interface.

[ShadowAce]

What’s a good Linux for conservatives?

I personally like Fedora (I'm a Red Hat admin), and I also run Pop!_OS at home. Both are developed in the States.

[eyeamok]

If I could get Quickbooks Pro and UPS to work on Linux, I would never use windows again for anything

[ShadowAce]

UPS?

[Leaning Right]

> I can't say that I blame them. Windows 11 sucks almost as much as Vista – remember that stinker? <

Remember Vista? My PC is still running Vista. I use it these days as a word processor only, with no internet connection. And even as a word processor it does goofy things.

I’ve thought about moving on to a newer PC, but I’m told that now I can only rent Microsoft Word. On my Vista I own it.

So I’m sticking with my Vista. And with my old, paid-for car, too.

[ShadowAce]

LibreOffice can open, read, and write to Office file formats.

Now's a good time to convert, and get rid of that Vista altogether.

[aquila48]

A month ago I installed the latest Mint on an old PC (dual boot) and it runs fine. Very pleased so far.

I first created a bootable USB drive, tried it out that way and then installed it.

[MayflowerMadam]

I had Vista about 15 years ago and I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. Then I went to Windows 10 and decided I was madly in love with Vista.

[Billthedrill]

I rebuilt the old Linux box last night. My Win10 workstation is failing - got 13 years out of it, after all - and I have only a few games that require Windows to hold me back from complete transition right now. The author of this article suggests buying new hardware to support the games, but that's exactly what Microsoft is demanding, and the answer to both is a hard No.

It isn't obvious yet and won't be until about this time next year, what sort of market share Microsoft is risking by this change. They're offering paid support for another year or so but that's only putting the problem off. And it doesn't prevent a repeat - "Hey, Windows 12 is coming out but you're going to have to buy a new infabulator in order to run it and we're pulling support for everything else. Have a nice day." Nope.

[ducttape45]

I have Windows 7, 10 and Linux Mint all running on my computer. Tri-boot. It takes a bit of tinkering but it can be done.

That said, I primarily use W10 at present, going back to W7 in order to use older Adobe products, Acrobat 10 and Photoshop CS5 as needed. But when W10 is no longer supported, I have my Linux O/S ready to go.

[eyeamok]

I ship packages regularly in my business and UPS is windows only

[Openurmind]

“I’m still on Windows 7 for the email. What’s a good Linux for conservatives?”

It belongs completely to you... So be who you want to be with it. There is nothing political or restrictive in the OS it’s self. It is not like Microsoft who controls everything you do with it. :)

If you want an almost same thing as Win 7 get Mint Cinnamon. As the article states... :)

[ShadowAce]

...going back to W7 in order to use older Adobe products, Acrobat 10 and Photoshop CS5 as needed.

Have you thought about just running a VM in Linux for that?

[ShadowAce]

A VM running Window inside Linux should take care of those issues for you.