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Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
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I don't believe most people would know about the change, and if they will, I doubt they'll care.
As long stuff don't break, people don't care about OSs. It's just as nerds.
There's no Linux, MacOS, and Windows. There's only 'computer'. The computer works or does not.
Sometimes they'll know Apple has computers too, and they're different. That's usually basically it.
Computer works or computer does not. There's no computer try.
Computer think, therefore... Computer
This is the correct answer. The number of people who skip updates is way way higher than most here think. The only ones who stick to it, are nerds and commercial entities...and a lot of those swapped to 11 already.
perhaps higher amongst fediverse users, but not with the general public.. default settings all around--including auto updates, no intentionally installed browser addons, maybe a wallpaper change. but that's it... is the most common windows configuration we see, by far.
Most people straight up will ignore them for months. Eventually forced to install and reboot. No one is jumping ship to 11 if their system doesn't handle it. They won't even know the shit no longer updates.
If anything they'll be glad it's no longer forcing updates on them.
I'm a nerd and not swapping to any version of Microsoft
Talk about easy targets for ransomware gangs and info-stealers. I wonder what'll be listing all over the .onion sites within a month.