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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 5 days ago by moe90 to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

W10 wouldn't get past the pin screen (type pin, then black screen forever, nothing else), so I used a live boot disk of fedora to rescue my files (turns out you can just bypass windows pins and mount the drive), then installed fedora on my old toshiba satellite and never looked back. Few years in I upgraded with linux in mind and now am cruising with a Framework 16. No regrets.

Join us! Cast off your shackles! Microsoft has no power over you beyond what you willingly give them!

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Linux/BSD blah blah blah

[–] griD@feddit.org 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

DoN't YOu gUyS hAvE TPM? Hilarious.

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[–] deadkennedy@lemm.ee 24 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Just in case anyone reading doenst know - the free tool Rufus can write a Win 11 ISO to your usb drive md remove all the silly soft requirements.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Or better yet, windows 10 LTSC. Which will be supported for another 2 years. 4 if you subsequently switch the product key to the IOT LTSC version.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The hurdles windows users are willing to put up with is nothing less than amazing. That's not a good thing.

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[–] aldfin@lemm.ee 24 points 5 days ago

Linux

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

Ok, write me a check for a new one.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Bring on the cheap non windows 11 computers. I've already told everyone i know if they didn't want to have to buy another computer for years they just had to start using linux. Then I show them what that looks like if they are interested. I show them that they can put menu/start button at the bottom left if thats what they want. That they can have a the same browser they use and many of the same applications. I've had two people willing to try. Most insist that they don't want to learn anything new. Its depressing but its a boon for me when people start getting rid of their perfectly usable gear.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yes. The totaly real PC trade-in market...

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