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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Honestly, i predict people and businesses will keep using Win10 years after it's become unsafe. We've all seen the local warehouse still running WIndows 7, i'm thinking that scenario but for millions of users.
That's a cypersecurity problem, but what i'm most concerned with is the e-waste problem, because there's still going to be a lot of users that do replace their PC. There aren't enough Linux users to buy all the computers that will be rendered obsolete, and there won't be by then either. I myself am a new Linux user but i'm already covered, i don't need more computers, not even for cheap.
I just really hope this doesn't end with millions of good computers landfilled or parted. The third world already buys a lot of our e-waste, so i hope they'll get a crapton of relatively good computers for cheap and run either WIn10 or Linux
Why would they stop? They don't need the internet. They gain nothing by using a different version of windows.
Most (hopefully all) computers in industry running outdated OSs are disconnected from the internet for that exact reason.
It will legit be a fantastic era for Linux on the desktop though... imagine how cheap we'll be able to get perfectly good hardware.