The irony with Microsoft business decision here seems limitless. 10-14-25 is the date Windows 10 will no longer be officially supported. This just so happens to also be the date for International E-Waste day as well as KDE’s birthday. To me this is hillarious and makes me wonder why the hell Microsoft didn’t do even a tiny bit of looking into what else takes place on 10-14. Hopefully this will help 2025 actually be the year of the Linux desktop we’ve been waiting for!
10-14-25
The 10th of Duember?
this is the same company that chose build 2600 for winxp, remember… odds are, someone at microsoft knew of kde’s “birthday” when 10’s eol date was finalized. i dunno exactly when that decision was made, the first itu ‘e-waste day’ could have come after that.
You guys actually make conspiracy theorists sound sane. Is Linux even at a 10% market share yet? You really think all the businesses and personal users on Windows are going to en mass switch to an operating system they don’t understand that requires them to constantly configure and adjust things to get stuff working, requires them to get comfortable with using terminal to accomplish stuff when they have only ever used GUI applications their entire lives, AND it doesn’t run half the programs they rely on and are used to, to do what they need?
Well, this was the case maybe 5 years ago, if not 10+ years back. Linux Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and ElementaryOS can all be run via a GUI. Additionally, you’re comment about programs is baseless. If you switch from Windows to Mac guess what will have to happen, you’ll have to start using similar but not the same programs. However, using a VM or Wine isn’t hard whatsoever thanks to YT walkthroughs. It’s 10 to 20 minutes of guided clicking and then you’re running Windows programs on Linux.
96% of the top 1,000,000 servers online and 100% of super computers run Linux. But people are creatures of habit and when compounded with a statement like this riddled with half truths, it only makes most folks more hesitant to switch. 4.1% of PCs run a common Linux distro, 1.9% run ChromeOS, and 6.4% run an “unknown” OS, which is widely believed to be Linux as well. So 12.4% of PC’s run some form of Linux and with the SteamOS release around the corner, this will breach 15% for sure. But okay, we’re a bunch of loons who like owning the equipment we bought and enjoy the financial + security + privacy perks of open sourced software. If nothing else, I hope you feel better. Take care!
I don’t think Linux is going to explode in market share any time soon. It might go up a little.
I really hope it does tho. I just want more market share to have more software support.
The more windows falls down the enshittification spiral, the more likely the EU will get pissed at Microsoft and fund Linux environments where it’s needed.
not too big marketshare can be* positive thing though. Not that its something to strive towards.
This is a victory.
– Every loser.
My old computer took to Mint without much of a problem. My newer one… many things didn’t work. The mint discord was very helpful though!
It’s a shame more manufacturers don’t sell machines that are already set up with Linux, so you don’t have to worry about like “oh WiFi doesn’t work for some esoteric reason?” as much
I’ve just installed mint on an old laptop and plan on switching my main system around.
I would like advice on what gaming laptop would work best with Linux. I heard amd is preferable, but there’s quite little laptops with amd video cards.
My current laptop has a split video card with a Intel and Nvidia one, I think that would be hard to run Linux on…
Lol. I used XP for years after it’s EoL, did the same with 8 and will do so with 10. Stay mad.
Instead of using an insecure and out-of-date OS, if you cannot move to Linux then at least use the LTSC version of Windows. It updates more slowly and is supported for much longer. Can also activate it the same way you activate the normal versions.
yea the IoT version will still be supported until at least 2032, and they will probably keep extending it with ESU at some point too
100%. There might be a slight uptick in Linux use, but the vast majority of people will either just keep using Windows 10, or buy a newer computer.
