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 This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses.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

  • SuperSpruce
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    6 months ago

    One of the 240 million would’ve possibly been my friend’s “old” gaming PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X, that he said could not upgrade to Windows 11. He sold it to me for cheap and I put KDE Neon on it. So far, it’s running smoothly except for the challenge of trying to automate mounting a RAID 1 set of drives.

    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I use “gnome-disk-utility” for mounting disks.

      Heck if I can get a computer to mount a drive on login… but “disks” let’s me do that easily.

      Granted that might be different for your setup. So ymmv