Win 10 EOL

[WD Forte]

No rush as yet, we have almost a year until Win 10 loses official support
unless you buy an extended license, so it's the old WIN/Linux debate again.

My old £30 Lenovo Thinkcentre PC runs win10/64 just fine for my use
i5 4590 cpu 16GB ram 500GB SSD on board HD Graphics 4600
I mostly do a bit of office, internet,some banking, play vids/music on VLC player
No games that need significant resources or hardware
I do have Adobe creative suite 6 but that's mostly just used to edit phone pics so gets used in the most minimalist way.

Win11 sneers at my PC when upgrades are mentioned
I know Linux will run just fine so I'm musing over a dual boot to play with possible alternatives.

I do not want a microsoft account and all that annoying shite I have to go in and manually turn off again.
I've tried Ubuntu and Mint in the past and preferred Mint for its clean simple interface and it just worked without me getting under the hood
so something like that would be my preference.

so what distros are worth a look nowadays?
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bikers smell of wee

[Freddyfruitba...]

This built-in obsolescence so pisses me off.

I'm running a very nice Lenovo laptop which I bought at great expense about 7 years ago I suppose. I felt it worth the expense as it's done me very well, and it still does exactly what I want from a computer. But. It doesn't support Windows 11, so if I want to keep using MS-based stuff (I do), I have no option but to bin it and replace.

The joke is that the last time I was faced with this bollocks, I discovered that my flatbed scanner had been rendered obsolete overnight, as nobody had thought to provide upgraded drivers for it; as a result I now still maintain my previous laptop - which timed out at Windows XP - specifically to use it occasionally with the scanner.
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KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS

[Easy-X]

For surfing, emails, occasion invoice, I've been installing elementaryOS for friends and relatives with old hardware:

https://elementary.io/
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[to v or not to v]

i still think mint is the easiest to get on with myself.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[MarJay]

[doggone]

I'm on a refurbished dell laptop with quite high specs on windows 10 it could easily run 11 but so far as I can see Dell used some kind of custom rom when they sold it (dell outlet) and even the tricks to force 11 to install don't work. Or rather after deploying the rufus or registry changes it will it will go through motions then back out saying can't boot into new OS.

To be fair I've had it 3 or 4 years so not bad for a refurb and the SSD is only 256gb so space needs to be monitored and strictly move stuff to flash drive. I might get another refurb and give this one to someone I don't like very much

[MarJay]

[Nobby the Bastard]

And thats why more and more kit in this house is running Mint. As soon as it gets to the point that Windows demands more resource than the device can provide, it gets swapped.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[blurredman]

Still on win7 as my main desktop. Very happy. Only upgraded to it from XP in 2018 so I haven't even had long on Win7. After win7/this PC. I think i'll be going to Linux full time.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.

[P.]

[doggone]

[WD Forte]

I was wondering if older, non Win 11 compliant PCs and lappy's
would be going cheap now for us who run the PC equivalent of old bangers and was idly browsing Ebay when
I saw a TPM workaround install on a USB stick for £15.

My quick read up on this tells me they edit the registry mid install to
get past the TPM checks
No idea how effective these are but later saw this DIY hack on Toms Hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement

I'll guess by next October we'll have options

I still miss 7 though, that was my favourite, it just worked
10 is ok but lots of shit to disable
dunno what 11 will be like
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bikers smell of wee

[Easy-X]

I need Current Day™ Windows for work purposes but otherwise I'd probably dual-boot some flavour of Linux (probably raw Debian) and Tiny11:

https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Freddyfruitba...]

[blurredman]

[P.]

My little dev laptop, gen2 i7 has no tpm but has Win11 on it, absolutely no trouble with the no tpm mods, which is just a quick change.