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'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux (fossforce.com)

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It’s almost like the good ol’ days of install fests and the like! ‘End of 10’ is an organization that’s making it easy for Windows 10 users with computers that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, to install Linux instead of sending good hardware to the landfill.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I upgraded my Win 10 laptop to IoT Enterprise LTSC recently which is stupidly easy and grants you support till 2032.

Aside from some weird app incompatibilities it's been working fine.

[–] purplemonkeymad 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think that many people want to buy Windows Enterprise, which they typically want you to also buy a support contract for.

Unless you pirated it, but I don't think telling people to "just run this pirate code" is that good of an idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Of course it's up to you whether you want to use something that, according to Microsoft, you're not supposed to use, but the only "pirate-code" I had to run was to activate it. The upgrade itself was pretty straightforward. You could use it just fine without activating it if you wanted.

IMO it's a better option buying a new computer to run Windows 11 officially. I'm not including Linux because I specifically wanted to keep Windows on the Laptop to run apps that don't work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did an upgrade, instead of a clean install, to the same version. I just had to reinstall my graphics driver and everything works as before, I just went through another step to remove some programs and it's been smooth sailing since.

Massgrave.dev provided what I needed. Was a breeze.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I did an in-place upgrade as well. I was surprised how easy it was; it's just one Registry key and from there you can just do a normal upgrade.

Way easier than installing Windows 11, which wouldn't even officially run on my ThinkPad T540p..