If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ‘junk’ - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you’re still using Windows 10 and don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

Fun fact: Linux is so customizable that you can run a modern GUI and software on 46mb of ram and a CPU from 1989. Don’t let Microshit tell you to throw out your old PC, it’s truly surprising what’s possible.

Dran
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Yeah but can it run signed drm in a way that the owner of the computer can’t read the keys? Checkmate atheists.

@BassTurd@lemmy.world
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I’ve switch my home computers to Linux. Unfortunately, at work, I have to maintain a Windows environment…

Did your job give you a work Laptop? If you personally own it then you could just run Windows in a VM.

@BassTurd@lemmy.world
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I do IT support at my company. We are a small business, but we work on many government contracts. I’m personally not experienced enough on Linux to support it at a businesses level. Part of working on government contracts is that we have to be CMMC certified in the relatively near future, probably first or second quarter next year. I’d love to get off of Windows, but like I mentioned I don’t have the knowledge to get us there, and we’re pretty entrenched in Windows until at least after the audit. Maybe someday, but the Microsoft m365 business GCC High is built with that specific certification in mind. It would require changing everything about our business to switch, and I don’t care enough about the company to go through that.

@bfg9k@lemmy.world
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But can I be fucked waiting 5 minutes for a VM to boot every time I need to use a Windows-only tool?

You could just use the earliest version of Windows that the software works (Windows 7 usually) and then keep the VM air gapped (aka no Internet connection)

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Let me introduce you to Adobe. Single-handedly keeping Linux adoption in check.

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