Windows 10 is close to being dead now, with support ending this year. So why not try out Linux? Instead of getting a whole new system and having to deal with the increasing amount of AI junk and adverts in Windows 11.
  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I need Linux users to understand that Windows folks don’t stop using an operating system just because the support ended

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      You “need” that?

      In the absolute, you are wrong. Some will. Some have. I have migrated a few myself.

      The end of support is a problem for Windows users and therefore an opportunity for Linux supporters.

      Will a large fraction of Windows users migrate to Linux? Probably not. That said, more will move if we educate them and offer our assistance. Even a small migration of Windows users would be a significant increase in Linux Desktop users. If 5 percent of Windows users migrated, it would double the number of Linux users. So, moving even a small percentage of Windows users would be a major success.

      Why does that bother you?

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The irony is that you migrated them, they did not do this themselves.

        Tons of people do not have an “IT guy” in their family of friends who would do such a thing for them. And they don’t care enough to learn how to install any operating system, let alone one they don’t know anything about.