• GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    If '25 isn’t due to people knowing win10 is going to die, '26 will be when they realize it’s dead. Started during <10.whatever Ubuntu but have been running windows because I own a nvidia GPU that I want to use to play games. I’m confident in bazzite to go full time this year but I honesty want steamos on my main PC. I’ve used it for however many years since first batch steamdecks arrived and I love it. I promise to be a fanboy if steamos can do nvidia egpus and vr headsets with less that 5 minutes of tinkering.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it and worst case they’ll get a new computer when they get a warning that their hardware is no good anymore.

      You need a minimum of tech knowledge to care and there’s only two generations with a higher % of people who have that, the X and millennials. Zs and Alphas use mobile devices and hit a wall when they need to use a computer.

      • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        17 days ago

        Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it

        To this day, many “normal people” use Win7 (and even XP) despite it being dead for a long time.

        Nonetheless IMO MS will somehow keep W10 on life support for quite some time after october of 2025 just for those people to finally switch to W11

        • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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          17 days ago

          Yeah I also expect MS will see W11’s poor uptake (iirc, W10 actually increased market share over the last 12 months) and will see it as necessary to extend. Probably more to reduce the risk of bad press from a serious security incident, rather than because they’re afraid people will switch to Linux.