I threw linux on an old laptop. Lemme tell you, the thing really just flies now. Under windows the fan was constantly kicking on because of all the bloat and extra garbage running. Now, the fan only kicks on when I kick the laptop into high performance mode (keeping the clock speed maxed out).

The boot speed is also insane. There's like a 2 second boot delay from off.

It's great to know I now have a laptop that will be supported for the next 40 years. Everything works perfectly.

Actually managed to convince my boss to run the Windows computers on Mint with a Windows 10 VM just for the compatibility stuff. All of the computers are now so much easier to maintain and teach users on. Nothing randomly jumps at you or changes locations with an update. Nothing asking for random permissions or requiring an update when opening. Pure bliss from an admin standpoint.

I just shut down a Win 7 box last summer - I refused to use any newer OS at home until 10 (used the server OS's).

I still say it's the best OS MS ever made.

I'll be joining y'all around the end of the year when I build a new desktop.

Tired laptop is still on W10 and I haven't touched Linux before. I have lots of data on it though and it's still part of my regular workflow, so I want to just play it safe for now rather than switch OS.

... but if I can get Mint up and running and be comfortable with it on a new desktop I'll do the same on the lappy.

Nah, that’s just Microsoft. Linux didn’t have to do anything.

More like the child is microsoft and the firefighters are linux users

If you weren't checking tech news regularly, shit like this just passes right over your head as a regular Linux user sometimes. I keep forgetting about the EoL thing.

Also having a clean frame of reference, if you have been a user for a long time now, you are definitely able to remember occasionally using a Windows machine and seeing the downhill slide literally happen before your eyes as everyone else is unaware of the growing pile of shit and getting slowly boiled like the frog in the pot.

The last version of Windows I'd consider clean of all this modern horseshit that's in those OSes now would be Windows 2000. Even XP started pushing the telemetry shit hard and started getting sketchy towards the end.

Literally just got myself a "new" laptop about 25 minutes ago.

Thanks Microsoft!

Honestly, macOS is going the same way too. They really got their act together with the hardware but the software is so much worse. This last round seems to have absolutely no QA. It’s like they outsourced the entire process.

So guess who just built a Linux PC?

We didn't start the fire

Thank you thank you thank you for reminding me about the lack of windows 10 security updates.

I'm pretty sure I have an old raspberry pi watering my plant with a 5 year old OS. Never updated once, it's not on the internet anyways.

I expect my Windows 10 machine will continue to do the things I need it to do. If it stops for some reason I'll just reformat.

I took the opportunity to "downgrade" to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.