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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Gemini24601@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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 This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses.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?

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

So you pretend that what was running on windows to run in Linux?. Dafuq people are naive af. We are talking mostly enterprise machines, most corporations didnt migrate to windows 11. So its not just installing steam lol

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

The post title is editorialized. The actual article had nothing to do with Linux.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

A lot of the corporate software these days run on cloud or provide viable Linux support. We're hoping that at least this can be covered.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 11 months ago

No, those computers can go to underprivileged communities so ppl can have access to word processor, programming, web dev, etc. They would be running Linux and be secure and functional.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Again, naive. People in underprivileged communities would struggle to even turn a computer on properly. Using Linux? Nice ideal, but not gonna happen.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 11 months ago

People in underprivileged communities would struggle to even turn a computer on properly.

Christ are you fucking serious? That's the most privileged, classist, ignorant comment I've seen in a while.

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