End Of 10 [With Support for Windows 10 ending in October of 2025, this is a website encouraging collaboration to help those leaving Windows 10 for Linux]

Endof10 ^ | 5/6/2025 | Endof10.org

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[H/T openurmind]

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Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

Find someone to help you → [ransomnote: I removed the link. Only one of the listings (so far) is listed in the United states and I linked it to the image below].

Install Linux yourself →

Would you like to help others keep their computer alive after Windows 10?

Sign up as repair collective →

5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux

1. It's waaaaay cheaper
   A new laptop costs a lot of money. Repair cafes will often help you for free. Software updates are also free, forever. You can of course show your support for both with donations!
2. No ads, no spying
   Windows comes with lots of ads and spyware nowadays, slowing down your computer and increasing your energy bill.
3. Good for the planet
   Production of a computer accounts for 75+% of carbon emissions over its lifecycle. Keeping a functioning device longer is a hugely effective way to reduce emissions.
4. Community support
   If you have any issues with your computer, the local repair cafe and independent computer shop are there for you. You can find community support in online forums, too.
5. User control
   You are in control of the software, not companies. Use your computer how you want, for as long as you want.

Convinced?

Then find your closest repair cafe or independent computer shop and enjoy your brand-new, old computer!

Repair your old computer → [ransomnote: I removed the link. Only one of the listings (so far) is listed in the United states and I linked it to the image below].

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[Buttons12]

Anyone familiar with a thing called “startallback?” https://www.startallback.com
They claim “Embrace, enhance, unsweep classic UI from under the rug”
...but I notice their alternative language is Russian. If I’m gonna be snookered I’d rather it be by a jerk in Cupertino.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump for reference.

[LuigiBonnafini]

As I sit here with a fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04

[SunkenCiv]

• "End of 10" Project's aim is to help Windows 10 users keep their PCs running for years [05/06/2025]

[martin_fierro]

[Openurmind]

SUPER! Thank you ransomnote. I had to jump and run and make a trip right after I posted the first thread about this where the source article got pulled. Thank you for doing the homework and covering my slack! :)

[Openurmind]

“However, Mint (and most other “modern” Linuxes) will update themselves in place. Keep your files where they are, run the update and Bada-Bing, you’re on the updated version.”

And 99 out of a hundred times you do not even need to restart... It upgrades and installs apps on the fly with no restart needed. :)

[dennisw]

Windows 11 works great for me. Since MS demands a Microsoft account to install it..... Just go to https://www.outlook.com to get an Outlook email “burner” account with them.

HP 17-CN2063CL 17.3’’ (512GB SSD Intel Core i5-1235U 12GB RAM) Laptop - Nice -Windows 11
US $245.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/187169824715

[Openurmind]

“Besides, so many versions of Linux. Who knows which one is best? I sure don’t.”

I do... Trust me on this one. I have tried just about all of them over the last ten years as a Linux freak. For a first time user coming from windows Linux Mint “Cinnamon” is the best hands down. I even went back to it after trying all the others. If you can run Win 7 you are in like Flynn with Mint Cinnamon. And it comes boxed with just about every app you are ever going to need. I have only had to use the Command Line Interface when doing highly technical specialty stuff. Everything “normal” is full GUI and slicker than snot...

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you all very much.

[Openurmind]

I can’t speak for the others, But it is absolutely my privilege. I hope it helps you! :)

[Buttons12]

Choosing amongst all those versions would be, for me, a massive investment in time. I know nearly nothing about Linux, having been trough-fed on Microsoft for some 25 years.
But I am a genius at taking advice. It is my superpower. :)
So I will concentrate on studying Cinnamon.
Thank you!

[Bikkuri]

(BBS)

[Bikkuri]

Don’t forget mIRC!

[fso301]

I always use my Windows versions reliably for years after “End of Life”

[Openurmind]

Thank you for your trust... After you use some of the others you would go back anyhow. It is based on Ubuntu but it is more polished and customizable. And they worked out some of the snags Ubuntu did not address.

So it uses the VERY extensive Ubuntu Repository of apps available. Everything from radio telescope software, HAM software, to the very newest apps that rival Windows apps.

And the Cinnamon is a upgraded form of Gnome. Gnome and Cinnamon has some very cool customization features. It has it’s own repository of cool Themes, Applets, Desklets, Etc.

And here is the cool thing about all the apps and themes. You do not have to go to a third party to install them. Right in the “software manager” you have a whole catalog to choose from and with two clicks it installs apps inside it’s self without needing to trust outside third party installs. It is a default built in feature of Ubuntu/Mint OS...

THAT is probably the slickest thing I have found about Linux yet. And it is all trusted software because it has been peer audited as trusted opensource ware. Just to give you an idea of what is available, here is a site below with just the Cinnamon (Gnome) stuff available from their repository. All installed from “inside” your OS admin it’s self. The Ubuntu/Mint repository is another whole repository with a couple thousand apps available...

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/

But how it works is slicker than snot. You choose and app to install. Then Linux goes and checks your system to see if there are any extra dependencies that app needs that you do not have yet. It then asks you if you want to go and grab them also during the same install operation. So as it installs the app it also goes and grabs all the extra stuff needed for that app all at the same time as one install operation.

Some windows apps you ave to go and find all the “extras” yourself from three different 3rd parties to make the app work. And then you find out after all of it you get the dreaded “your version will not support this app, you must upgrade”. None of that BS with Linux, just about everything Linux just works no matter what version or how old it is... :)

[Buttons12]

Multiple thanks! This is especially reassuring:

Linux goes and checks your system to see if there are any extra dependencies that app needs that you do not have yet. It then asks you if you want to go and grab them also during the same install operation. So as it installs the app it also goes and grabs all the extra stuff needed for that app all at the same time as one install operation.

A compelling reason for putting of transitioning to Linux has been that apps I need, might not work in Linux because "whatever." You try to get something and you're told, "Hm, no, you can't do that here." I often run into roadblocks when trying new stuff, and I don't know the detours.

[Openurmind]

Here is a sample... I use this "Metallic Cyan" theme. I think it is sophisticated and classy... :)

Far cry from the misconception that Linux is THIS right?

[bobcat62]

Normie: I want to try Linux to replace Win 10.
Me: Good choice. There are 10,000 Desktop Linux distributions. Good luck.

[sethro]

I’ve seen a guy on Rumble, Switched to Linux, demo various Linux distros. Linux Mint Cinnamon was highly recommended.. may switch to that and try out a program that can run Windows apps & games.

My Windows 10 and 11 systems are “debloated” using a program written by Chris Titus et al. Pretty neat program to help put a choke collar on Microsoft’s hoopla.