Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

Gemini24601@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 703 points –
Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million Computers To The Landfill: A Stack Of That Many Laptops Would End Up 600 Km Higher Than The Moon - Gadget Tendency
gadgettendency.com

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?

247

You are viewing a single comment

It is far too confusing what to use - even as someone who uses Linux on various servers, a media centre, WSL and used to run a Gentoo laptop I still don't know which distro to use, let alone which of KDE/Gnome, X11/Wayland, init/systemd etc.

just try one in a vm?

also, most of the differences are not that big, any one of them will work fine for most people.

1 more...