Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah but can it run signed drm in a way that the owner of the computer can’t read the keys? Checkmate atheists.

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve switch my home computers to Linux. Unfortunately, at work, I have to maintain a Windows environment…

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did your job give you a work Laptop? If you personally own it then you could just run Windows in a VM.

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    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do IT support at my company. We are a small business, but we work on many government contracts. I’m personally not experienced enough on Linux to support it at a businesses level. Part of working on government contracts is that we have to be CMMC certified in the relatively near future, probably first or second quarter next year. I’d love to get off of Windows, but like I mentioned I don’t have the knowledge to get us there, and we’re pretty entrenched in Windows until at least after the audit. Maybe someday, but the Microsoft m365 business GCC High is built with that specific certification in mind. It would require changing everything about our business to switch, and I don’t care enough about the company to go through that.

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    • bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But can I be fucked waiting 5 minutes for a VM to boot every time I need to use a Windows-only tool?

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      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t shutdown the VM. Instead, use shutdown -> save button in the virt-manager. Now your VM will launch in seconds next time you want to use it because it’ll be resumed from the saved state.

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You could just use the earliest version of Windows that the software works (Windows 7 usually) and then keep the VM air gapped (aka no Internet connection)

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So customizable that it can’t even be run on many devices.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Linux runs on way more devices than Windows, what are you talking about?

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well not the ones I tried. Maybe I had bad luck.

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      • HERRAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Now this has me curious, what devices are those? Since transitioning to Linux I’ve installed it on a Mac, a surface pro 4, an old Lenovo laptop, an Asus laptop from 2014, my dedicated LAN desktop PC and my main desktop gaming PC, and none of those have had any issues.

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      • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Probably something in the BIOS, like secure boot or something. Normally such issues are easy to troubleshoot.

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