Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:
The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.
The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.
Are you all ready?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If MS decides that my hardware is obsolete, I’ll just go full Linux 🤷♂️
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Personally I use Linux Mint on my other machine and Windows on my main PC
Before Windows 10 goes EoL I’m going to get my NAS running a Windows VM for Fusion 360 and Lightroom and my main rig will be on Linux Mint as well
I just need a need to finish my NAS rebuild to get everything rolling at full steam
Unfortunately that means I need to stop buying car parts first
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛
kingorgg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
If you wanted to get rid of windows in general, Darktable seems to be a good alternative to lightroom, for raw editing. There’s a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials available.
Not sure about Fusion 360 though… Maybe FreeCAD?
1984@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Did that over 10 years ago so hope you join up soon. :)
PassingThrough@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you game at all? Gaming on Linux has made great strides, be be fair, but for a lot of titles you still need to consider a dual boot of some form of Windows, thanks to over the top anti-cheat, DRM, and developer support.
Something to consider for the gamers out there.
kava@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The only titles that don’t work in Linux are the ones with invasive anti-cheat.
Virtually all single players game work. I’ve had games that don’t work on Windows due to crashes / performance but run on Linux.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Apex started acting up on pop a year and half ago which drove me back to my windows partition (that I hadn’t seen in almost 18 months).
I don’t know if my issue is: pop, proton, steam, apex, my hardware(bad ram?), flatpaks, the deb, or something else. In my opinion it’s one of the toughest part about Linux gaming–when something goes wrong you arent going to find a ton of help since there is so much fragmentation.
But anyway, I echo your sentiment. Windows is still a necessary evil for a lot of us if you are big into PC gaming.
Trollception@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My machine is 7 years old and runs fine on Windows 11. I don’t understand all these posts about Windows 11 not being supported. TPMs have been a thing for 10+ years now.
Petter1@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Same with apple, tho 😇
metaStatic@kbin.social 6 months ago
Apple is king of new OS doesn't work on the old hardware though