[z3n]

clever move

[Bayard]

Remember when Windows 10 was said to be the final OS perpetually supported OS?

Yah they said that about Vista, 7, 8 too.

[Bob434]

bump

[crazycat]

Put a Linux o/s on ‘em and they’ll run just fine.....after u wipe the Gates of hell crap off.

[VanShuyten]

Apple has a much better way to make their tablets obsolete. Since their OS is hardwired, older IPads just can’t accept newer updates. Soon after, the apps stop working on the older system, forcing users to get a newer IPad.

[jeffc]

Gee, whatever happened to ‘backwards compatibility”? /s to the MS $$...

[bobbo666]

Any company that allows a CCP-controlled company to “auto-update” anything deserves the disaster that will follow. Treat Chrome as the cancer that it is.
At the very least pick up un-Googled Chromium. It is clean.

[MikelTackNailer]

This is good. I just got a refurb with Windows 10 pre-installed and do NOT want 11.

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[dayglored]

Windows 11 Google ChromeOS ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Paal Gulli]

G**gle is the largest and most pervasive censor and manipulator of information that has ever existed ...

... at least on this planet.

It exists solely to invade your privacy and manipulate your thought processes. If you use any G**gle product (without first making some technically-astute modifications), you're as much as begging for a proctological exam every time you fire up a PC or handheld digital device.

[Billthedrill]

I just had to transition off my old Outlook 2013 email app because that's now out of support (and suddenly started throwing authentication errors like magic!) - so the only thing I really need Microsoft for is a few legacy games. The main workstation is now 12 years old and there's nothing wrong with the hardware except that Win 11 won't run on it. The article estimates 240 million workstations that will be hitting the landfills but I strongly suspect it's a lot more than that, and it won't be landfills at all, it'll be a market share just waiting for someone to fill. If new hardware is inevitable, I'm sure Apple is watching this one very carefully.

This old machine will make one heck of a Linux box, which conversion will take all of about an hour, Lord knows I've done that a few dozen times. And the games will run fine on a standalone or a virtual box. It's not even as painful as it used to be. Microsoft wants a divorce, I won't contest.

[Dead Corpse]

Neither Mint nor Unbuntu will feed most of your metadata back to Google’s servers...

Just sayin’...

CentOS used to be in that category as well... :-(

[goodnesswins]

Iff subject...isn’t there a Tech Group on FR? I want to see if ppl have ideas about secure “cloud” services, ie mega and sinc

[TBP]

What if you don’t want their spyware/malware updates?