As Windows 10 end of life approaches, analysts are concerned that millions of devices will be scrapped due to incompatibility

Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap::As Windows 10 end of life approaches, analysts are concerned that millions of devices will be scrapped due to incompatibility

        • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Curious what you’re using. Ms office kinda sucked but LibreOffice works incredibly well, and Adobe products last I tried (years ago) sucked. But gimp and DaVinci resolve work great. Most of my games run absolutely fine. For everything else you just need a web browser and those have worked great always.

          • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Yeah office products and vide editors have Linux alternatives, but to me the main offenders are Native Instruments Maschine (proprietary USB controller that doesn’t work in Linux + software that doesn’t work in Linux) and DTP software like Affinity Publisher or Adobe Indesign that have no Linux equivalent.

            I’m lookin into running those things in a Windows KVM in Linux though but it’s quite the project.

        • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Wine or emulation? When I had to use Windows for work I used WSL to run my tooling and didn’t notice any performance degradation. Does it apply too vice versa?

          Although I’m with you on the hardware side. Because I have an Nvidia card my Linux install has been relegated for personal projects only. I already have a workstation supplied by my employer for work.

          • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Sadly the things I need don’t work in Wine, Proton etc. I’m looking into running a Windows KVM with hardware pass through, but it’s quite the project, and requires a second GPU that I don’t have.

    • Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Or simply use an easy workaround to disable the tpm check and set up an offline account. I literally have win11 running on an old T460.

      • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Anything you need to do beyond Rufus or the like for installation? How did activation, auto updates, etc work?

        • Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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          11 months ago

          No, you don’t need anything else. Activation works the same if you log into your ms account or you can simply use https://massgrave.dev/ . I’m pretty sure there’s a way to get your key and enter it manually but I haven’t tried that yet.