End of 10 — Windows 10 is reaching the end of its support. Time to make the switch to Linux.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30792652
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!
5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:
1. No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs
2. Enhanced Privacy
3. Good For The Planet
4. Community & Professional Support
5. Better User Control
End of 10 — Windows 10 is reaching the end of its support. Time to make the switch to Linux.
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!
5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:
1. No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs
2. Enhanced Privacy
3. Good For The Planet
4. Community & Professional Support
5. Better User Control
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in reply to Pudutr0n • • •Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
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in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • • •There is web support, but it lacks most actually useful functions. Libreoffice is great, but is not 1:1 compatible with excel. Then there's Onlyoffice, which is very compatible, but also lacks many functions.
Bottom line is, if you're an excel power user, you'll need to learn Libreoffice Calc, or you're out of luck. If not, Onlyoffice should suffice.
Zagorath
in reply to youmaynotknow • • •Let's be honest...most people who are Excel power users probably need to interact with other users. Sending and receiving documents and templates, etc. Simply learning Calc yourself isn't going to suffice, you'd have to convince your entire business to switch.
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youmaynotknow
in reply to Zagorath • • •Your logic is spot on, and it does apply to most power users, but not to all.
Everyone has a different use case and experience, I think we speak based on our own experiences.
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in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • • •Phen
in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • • •It's pretty bad at anything with large amounts of both data and formulas.
As an example, if you try to make a spreadsheet for managing resources of any basic Colony Sim game (something with a list of items and recipes to turn them into other items and keep track of quantities), then you're already beyond the computing capacity of the browser based excel.
Olgratin_Magmatoe
in reply to Phen • • •To be fair, if you're using large amounts of data and formulas as a power user, you should probably be instead writing some python or something to handle CSVs.
As for your particular example, LibreCalc would work just fine.
Matriks404
in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • • •Olgratin_Magmatoe
in reply to Matriks404 • • •Definitely another option.
It'll probably work for a good decade or two before it goes out of date. They still need to support the enterprise LTS version, which I think includes excel.
merde alors
in reply to Pudutr0n • • •compatibility layer for running Windows software on Unix-like systems
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in reply to merde alors • • •merde alors
in reply to Pudutr0n • • •it doesn't.
you're free from Windows and you can still use Excel which is necessary for your work.
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decended_being
in reply to Pudutr0n • • •nasi_goreng
in reply to decended_being • • •LibreOffice is good as a standalone software, if you're not looking for MS Office compability.
I use LibreOffice, and my sister suddenly ask me to help edit their MS Office document. It was nightmare. There are a lot of hidden gotchas that rarely reported. It's absolutely not recommended to constantly changing software if you're editing your document.
Also, at the moment, Excel has more advance feature than LibreOffice Calc.
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techpir8
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Hmm Windows 10 LTSC and IOT will still be supported until 2027.
Debian Trixie, now is the time to shine, release soon please.
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in reply to t҉̠̙ǵ̣̞̄ͪ͜x̸̱͚̳ͫ͐̑̈ͯͣ̚n̒͌҉͉̦̜̝ͅ • • •I may agree because it's easy to get gaming packages on Arch(i use a arch based distro cachyos with chaotic aur repos)
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in reply to heavy • • •Yea, that’s very weird. It’s open source so anyone could make changes to it, but still.
github.com/ffxiv-teamcraft/ffx…
GitHub - ffxiv-teamcraft/ffxiv-teamcraft: A ffxiv tool to handle collaborative crafts easily
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •You don't need to buy a new computer. You just need to upgrade your old computer.
To Linux.
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in reply to sparky@lemmy.federate.cc • • •Bunbury
in reply to sparky@lemmy.federate.cc • • •Same here. Games and general office tasks work flawlessly on Linux. I currently only launch into windows for the Adobe suite and some other image editing apps (by Topaz Labs) that I already have licenses for but that won’t run on Linux.
So far the alternatives I’ve found aren’t nearly as powerful. However I’m determined to uninstall windows by the time my licenses run out 9 or so months from now.
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Unknown parent • • •NotASharkInAManSuit
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Can I bother anyone in this thread to help with suggestions for a Linux distro that works for a gaming PC that won’t require me to have a computer science degree? I’m not afraid of some troubleshooting here and there, but I’m ~~kind of~~ dumb.
Edit: I should have known there’d be a shotgun load of different distros, good thing I’ve been gifted with e-“waste” for years, I’ve got some tinkering to do. Hyper-fixation, here I come.
kkj
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in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •Bazzite is phenomenal. Just know that it works a little differently than what I'd call "legacy" distros. So when googling things, just know that a lot of instructions for Linux won't work for you.
If you run into trouble, hop on the discord and someone will help you.
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in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •Chais
in reply to evanciao • • •Updates frequently fail, commonly used packages like gamescope aren't available, overall wouldn't recommend.
evanciao
in reply to Chais • • •Wolf
in reply to evanciao • • •I’m on PopOS and my experience is the exact opposite. I love the UI- it’s the main thing I like about it actually. Never had an update fail.
I don’t use gamescope, just run everything from Steam or Heroic and never had an issue gaming.
YMMV
Chais
in reply to Wolf • • •Wolf
in reply to Chais • • •I just looked it up and people are saying you can install the Ubuntu PPA with no issues.
It may not be (probably isn't) the latest release, but that option exists at least. I'm glad I never had to use it. What games have you had to use it for? Do you have an AMD GPU or Nvidia?
I just wanted people to know that not everyone thinks Pop-os is shit. Part of the issues you experienced may have been due to the fact that they are currently hard at work writing their own DE (Cosmic) using Rust and they are waiting on that to be finished before upgrading to the newest LTS release of Ubuntu. We are currently still on 22.04.
If you want all of your software packages to be on the bleeding edge, I wouldn't recommend PopOs. But I definitely would recommend it for someone who just wants a solid distro and doesn't 'have a computer science degree'.
YMMV, but from my personal experience using it for almost a year now it's been rock solid.
Edit: I just realized that my post said "Don't use gamescope" when what I meant to say was "I don't use Gamescope." I wasn't intending on advising people not to use it. My bad.
Edit2: I also forgot that I stopped using "Pop!_Shop" for updates and software search. That was getting really slow. I would advise your partner install the "COSMIC Store" instead, it's way better 😀
Wolf
in reply to Chais • • •I'm on PopOS and my experience is the exact opposite. I love the UI- it's the main thing I like about it actually. Never had an update fail.
Don't use gamescope, just run everything from Steam or Heroic and never had an issue gaming.
YMMV
Zerush
in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •Q4OS - desktop operating system
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •For those which need to use Windows, here three mandatorio FOSS apps (the best IMHO)
With these you can use Windows 11, showing the middlefinger to M$
GitHub - hellzerg/optimizer: The finest Windows Optimizer
GitHubNoKYC.Cards
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •It's the best option for ex-Windows users like me.
Sleek and modern with low learning curve.
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in reply to PieMePlenty • • •Gaming related, the only thing that will cause you pain is VR or Kernel Level AC
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Linux has gotten incredibly better for gaming. Now Bluetooth controllers connect just as easy as Windows, and Steam has Proton built in so that when you run a Windows only game, Steam will automatically install the appropriate Proton and Wine software -- just make sure to turn on compatibility mode in the Steam launcher settings. Every game I ran so far runs fine on Linux.
It couldn't be a better time to switch to Linux.
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Unknown parent • • •I worked on this myself: there's no way to get it working no matter what anyone says they managed to get working
You can force team craft to run on the same wine prefix (XIV launcher makes that ezpz) and everything fancy related to that and it just doesn't work
sunbytes
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Came to Lemmy while my disk manager is processing my new partition.
If it goes well, I'm switching today.
So, probably some time early tomorrow morning. Because I'm not great with reading instructions.
Edit: it's still processing. It feels like it shouldn't take this long to partition...
corodius
in reply to sunbytes • • •sunbytes
in reply to corodius • • •Luckily it only took like 15 mins total.
Thanks though!
corodius
in reply to sunbytes • • •NutWrench
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •The other nice thing about Linux is that there are several Live versions you can try out on your computer without making any changes to your Windows installation.
This also lets you see if check and see if Linux fully supports your hardware (just in case you have a weird network or audio card). If the Live version of Linux works, the installed version will, as well.
Most installers let you set up a dual boot on the same hard drive, too.
BlameTheAntifa
in reply to NutWrench • • •I love this. I recently set up a “Linux flight” with various distros on a bunch of thumb drives to test drive the latest. I decided to stay Kubuntu but it made experimenting so quick and easy.
I have some friends and family that cant upgrade from Windows 10, so I’m going to keep the flight and walk them through trying out some personally selected distros.
Using Steam, Heroic, and Bottles you can even run Windows software almost perfectly, too. There’s never been a better time for regular folks to make the switch.
curious_dolphin
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in reply to curious_dolphin • • •Wolf
in reply to NutWrench • • •Even if your audio or WiFi card doesn't work automatically in the live environment, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are out of luck either. My WiFi card manufacturer doesn't support Linux (Last thing I buy from them), but I was able to find a driver that was built by the community for a very similar product that works flawlessly.
This may be more complex than some people are willing/able to solve, just wanted to put that out there for people who can so they aren't discouraged by a bad experience with a live distro.
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I'm currently using this software, what kind of replacements do I have for it on Linux, that have an actual GUI, and not just command line?
RemedyBG by remedybg
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