Comment on Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This shit contributes to electronic waste.
It would be a REALLY simple thing to implement for longer and get the PR boost/spin. considering there are still so many devices that are working that don’t support newer software, brand loyalty is waning and windows is competing with chrome books. That’s the shit k-12 are getting and most basic people. Give yourself at least a bit of an edge shit.
But nah public hasn’t made a big fuss about that so of course they won’t elect to make better choices for the environment
Darken@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Most of these devices are artificially locked out of win11 with regex
Removing the regex makes them run win11 as fine as win10 used to run (at least in my machine case)
Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
My laptop was somewhat high end around 11 years ago and is still working solidly. I love the Thinkpad series btw. The only thing I had to do was upgrade to SSD and larger memory many years ago. I was an early adopter of windows 11 and after forcing the installation, it ran even better than windows 10 on the same hardware. The lock out felt extremely artificial and arbitrary.
kuneho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
same story, I have a 13 year old laptop that was a fucking beast back then, and to be honest, with 16B RAM and SSD it still is.
Now I guess according to Microsoft, it’s no better than a banana peel in the garbage can.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Apple is no better. I’m still using a 2013 Macbook pro as a laptop and I can’t upgrade the OS and slowly apps are failing, office will no longer update, and it won’t let me move to the latest OS despite the laptop still being a powerhouse with the same 16gb of ram and ssd.