I’m not sure of anything! I am just wondering about the repositioning of W10 systems that won’t run W11.
I took an older w10 Dell precision workstation and put TrueNAS on it for backups.
Procrastination is good: Something to look forward to for tomorrow and nothing to do today!
Most machines that are not up to running W11, will indeed run W11, provided the user, wishes to go this route, and so far MS has not discouraged a user from installing, W11 in this manner.
Although, I have a W11 machine, I also run a Dell laptop with a hacked W10 ISO, that installs W11. Of course the safest way would be to just run Linux or just run W10.
Most Win users are not going to be capable of setting that up.
and a good proportion of them are not going to be capable of installing Linux either.
So where do they go?
On my site i have a contact me for anyone choosing linux when windows x stops but no one uses it.
Think many will just stick with 10 whilst it continues to work and then buy new to replace bit like the xp route!
Sadly
@nevj
Run W10 or buy a new device as @callpaul.eu has already posted!!! BTW @callpaul.eu XP still runs just fine, just has to be used with Linux for web access.
I had no doubt that xp would continue unsupported, but suspect the hardware is now very dated so could be slow and likely to fail due to age, things like hard disks.
Once i moved to linux did not need to go back
Just read this article “You May Not Want to Switch to Linux for These Reasons” from “How-to-Greek” . It sums up the reasons pretty good. I thought reason #5 “You Don’t Like Getting Your Hands Dirty” was a very good one, but reason 1 thru 4 would be show stoppers for most people.
I read the same item and just thought he was building a case for not using linux and quite negative, none of them for me would be showstoppers
The reasons would seem to only apply to cowards or gamers in their mom’s basements, not to reasonably proficient adults. The most obvious reason isn’t mentioned: hunh? There’s something other than what the big box stores sell?
In other words, ignorance.
Yes, but not in the derogatory sense.
Lack of information goes back to the ecucation system
That’s true but then they don’t teach Latin anymore either. It would be great to have the option of taking classes that included Windows, Mac, and Linux. I have a feeling they’d be in that order. I always thought it was less useful to have Apple computers in schools because when you get into the workforce they aren’t used as often. That’s not as true as it used to be these days though.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be useful to teach Linux though. It sure would. Maybe mostly for the students headed towards computer science. Most of the rest will end up using Windows, Mac, and of course mobile devices.
That would be an advance… both for education and for linux.
There must be some case for a general computer education in todays world. I mean stuff like how computers work, and what an operating system is , how a program is written and installed and launched. Also some historical understanding of how computers were developed.
Leaving that until University is a copout. Everyone needs to have the chance to understand computers in the same way that they understand other important institutions like motor vehicles and the financial system and government…
In 1999 - I was in a department store (Myers) in Perth - and they had a sort of a “computer (and electronics) shop” - and - on the shelf - a boxed copy of Red Hat 6 (not RHEL) - so I bought it!
I was hopeful at the time that it would become more popular…
Anyway - my employer at the time was about to deploy a POS solution for some sorta furniture chain - running on Linux - so they reimbursed me (I kept all the stickers out of the box though)…
Anyway - as it is - Linux eventually replaced about 85% of what UNIX servers had been doing previously - but I’m still flabbergasted at the amount of Windows “servers” out there…
And besides Linux - there’s also truckloads of infrastructure running on a free BSD (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) solution - or a semi-proprietary BSD based platform like Juniper networking kit, NetApp NAS / SAN - I’m sure there’s a lot more…
Some 20 years ago - I thought Linux was great as a server O/S - and I did also run it as a desktop O/S - firstly Suse Enterprise Linux, then Ubuntu 4.0… I had my main machine (a Dell gaming laptop) running XP, but also a desktop machine running Suse (SLES), and a Toshiba laptop running Ubuntu 4.0 (wifi worked PLUG and PLAY!). But I had to downsize a bit - and ended up having just one desktop PC - that dual booted Windows XP, 7 and some version of Ubuntu…
But I never really made a full divorce from Windows till around 2012 when Valve release Steam on Linux with some top shelf titles ported natively…
Anyway - now I have more machines than I’ll ever need, and none of them are running Windows (TBH - I have one laptop that’s setup triple or quadruple boot - has Windows 10 on one partition - but - I haven’t powered it up for months now and it’s under a pile of other stuff).
Do you have any idea of the proportions of servers that are Win, BSD, or Linux?
People are using Linux without realizing it because we all depend on these servers.
Do you know what Google uses in its servers?
What about home servers… what do people choose there?
Linux is seen by companies as server systems, but not as desktop systems.
If more used it at work then they would go for that at home
Chicken and egg situation, needs a big push to move just like the change in mobile phones to Android and left nokia, Blackberry etc struggling
We need a steve jobs for linux to make it sexy to use !
Something like what I had in high school that we called “shop” class. We did small engine repair, wood working, and drafting. No computers at the time. I took typing on a manual typewriter. 
We called it “Manual Arts”. Ours consisted of DGD (Descriptive Geometry and Drawing), Woodwork, and Metalwork. No computers then, drawing was pencil and paper on a board with a tee square and implements like compass and triangles and dividers.
I was very lucky my school was the first in the north of england to offer computer studies, writing programs in cesil, then basic, on magnetic cards. I even did a qualification in computing . It was our maths teacher who kicked it off as he was interested in the subject, there were 2 of us who really got something out of it but the rest of the class just filled in time no interest.
Our teacher was very good but some times he could not follow the logic or the subject as it was learning for him as well.
No books to follow, no material it was all done on the fly, the material came in the post monday for that week, i collected it and spent hours going through it before the teacher delivered it, heaven for me.
In the US, our school system called it “Shop Class”. Again it was Woodwork, Metalwork, 3D drawing using tee square and a little leather work. As I remember, it was only offered for 2 years. Girls had a class called “Home Economics” which I think included baking.
I remember we had a US DGD teacher who was in Australia on a teacher exchange scholarship. The Australian teacher he exchanged with was a friend of our family.
I wonder if they still do that today?
This “shop” word is not used in Australia. We say “workshop”.
A “shop” in Australia is a place where they sell things… like a supermarket only smaller.
American English is a different language. At least you use the same alphabet.