[ShadowAce]

[Navy Patriot]

Bookmark!

[Red Badger]

Windows XT!......... 😄

[ansel12]

For the W10 lurkers who won’t do Linux, at least today.

I just did the 1 more year thing by signing into my microsoft account and getting the one year free update extension on five laptops.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bfl

[Yo-Yo]

If you have a Microsoft account, you can extend Windows 10 support for another full year.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

[null and void]

“(the OOBE phase)”

Does this call for a NDE-OOBE (Near Death Experience - Out Of Body Experience) ping?

[Still Thinking]

Advertising anything to me through my OS running on my computer is unacceptable, targeted or not.

[so_real]

We have one single accounting machine remaining that runs Windows because of ... Quickbooks. Oh, how I detest what Quickbooks has become. If there is a non-web-based decent accounting software out there that runs on Linux, please let me know. But any software, including Quickbooks, that forces me to store my vendor and customer data online is a non-starter. That info is gold and stays inside our four walls. I miss the days that I could air-gap the machines running accounting software.

[JZelle]

How about Linux on an outdated iMac (2012)?

[sauropod]

Review

[PAR35]

Well, since this is false, I wonder what else is.

Microsoft folded and gave a one year extension to anyone who asked. I do suspect it gives them a way to spy on Win10 machines in a way that is automatic on Win11 machines; it would have been more useful if he'd done the work to look into this, rather than doing what he did with this statement.

[ScottHammett]

Its always about the applications. The accountant in our house will not give up her quicken and quilting apps. I use linux on my cloud server. Certain admin tasks are difficult and I have lots of unix experience.

[SkyDancer]

Where do you get Linux and how do you install it?

[decal]

Will probably do this at home but for the the office desktop at work, hmmm.

[Bobbyvotes]

Only thing I hate about Windows is frequent and slow updates. Other than that no problems. I have written a lot of my own software to manage my investments using dBase and I am not sure it will be problem in moving to Linux.
The slow update issue I control by disabling updates for 3 months. Never had issues with hacking in 30 years using Windows.

[dragnet2]

I will be converting four Windows PCs to Linux very soon.

The greedy SOBs running Microsoft Windows can bite me!

[Southern Magnolia]

Running Linuxmint on my Gateway that was “too old” years ago for updates on Windows https://linuxmint.com/

Have a dual set-up of Windows and Linuxmint on my laptop. This means you basically have them side by side and you choose which one to run in startup.

Running my other old GW Windows 7 offline.

[butlerweave]

I only use windows to play a few online games and use Linux for everything else , duel boot hard drives

[Paal Gulli]

Windows is like alcoholism. Most folks can’t get motivated to give it up until they’ve hit rock bottom. Until then, trying to talk them into changing is mostly a waste of breath.