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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? (self.technology)

submitted 5 months ago by Brkdncr to c/technology

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Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Personally I use Linux Mint on my other machine and Windows on my main PC

Before Windows 10 goes EoL I'm going to get my NAS running a Windows VM for Fusion 360 and Lightroom and my main rig will be on Linux Mint as well

I just need a need to finish my NAS rebuild to get everything rolling at full steam

Unfortunately that means I need to stop buying car parts first

[–] PlutoniumAcid 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

stop buying car parts first

Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛

[–] dual_sport_dork 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. Bikes and bike parts are cheaper. And then you can have more bikes than cars, and more bikes to buy parts for. Wait, where was I going with this again?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This was my logic.
Sell the BMW and get a Ducati and then a Honda Monkey….
Ooooh shiny new Rizoma parts!!!

My account ain’t growing at all…!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you wanted to get rid of windows in general, Darktable seems to be a good alternative to lightroom, for raw editing. There's a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials available.

Not sure about Fusion 360 though... Maybe FreeCAD?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately FreeCAD is not as featur e rich as Fusion 360

It's getting closer but it's not there yet