Mate, there's people out there still on XP.
The "end of 10" will be people breathing a sigh of relief that they don't come back to their PC to find it's done a sneaky reboot while they were on lunch.
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What happens when you connect win xp to the net nowadays? Genuine question.
Assuming you're behind a NAT like just about everyone is these days, probably very little.
Only TLS 1.0 works unless you install extras, so you'd be unable to load some sites. Microsoft in particular have turned it off, so you'll have trouble getting anything from them. The likes of Google and Facebook have it enabled still. It might be enabled for the update channels, but I don't have a box on hand to test.
Going off road might earn you a browser vuln from a dodgy video hosting site, since most browsers stopped getting updates a while ago.
Honestly your biggest problem is that machines still on XP are as old as the hills and about as quick. A modern website will bring a Pentium 4 to it's knees.
You look proprietary.
I installed Mint on another partition alongside Windows 10, and I’m giving myself until the end of the extended security update period to fully migrate.
Here here
Edit: Hear hear?
The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.
My VPN expires tomorrow. After that, my media center laptop goes offline forever, until the penguin gets its filthy flippers on it.
What's the best distro for a shitty 10 year old Lenovo Yoga? I'll be using it to acquire (through purely legal means) torrents including Wikipedia backups and Linux isos
Debian is nice
Agreed. For a server, Debian is awesome.
Games and mods are really the only reason I still put up with the BS, but that straw is gonna break eventually. I don't want to dual boot, but once SteamOS can play D2 that will probably be the day.
The only thing I'm really not sure on is mods. I tend to mod the fuck out of any game that supports it, and since mods are all written independtly, I'm worried many won't be written well enough to be functional outside of the environment they were MacGyvered in.
If by D2 you mean Destiny 2, then I recommend making the switch so you CAN'T play D2. As a former addict myself, I can tell you it doesn't have control your life. I know it doesn't seem like it now but there is a way out if you're open to it.
Sending thoughts and prayers ❤️
4k hours in and I finally realized it had become a second job. Stay strong out there, recovery is possible!
Now I'm playing a bunch of fun single player games that I missed out on because I was so sucked in.
Yes! It really was a second job! When it's good, it's REALLY good but it gets to the point where you're playing because you feel you have to, not because you want to. You're constantly grinding mindless crap so you'll be ready for that next content drop that hits as hard as the last thing you actually enjoyed over a year ago (spoiler alert: it won't).
I was lucky. I came to that realization at 1.1k hrs and it still took another 100 to quit. Afterwards, and I am dead serious about this, it took a bit more time before I could enjoy single player games I used to love again.
D2 is a pit that can and will suck you in. It's digital crack.
sigh
USE PROTON!!!
How I predict my migration will go:
- Take a week off work so I can focus.
- Load Ubuntu and get Proton / Steam up and running.
- Spend remainder of the work troubleshooting audio & video issues.
- Either get everything working by the end of the week, or live my ass up and install Windows 11.
Gaming...straight to Bazzite, you'll likely be playing in an hour. Why wait, just point the installer at an external drive and see what it's like.
Just install Mint if you’re already planning on ubuntu. It’s basically the same thing under the hood, but with more polish and shine and without Canonical’s junk.
I'm thinking of buying a Mini-PC just to fiddle around with Linux and get used to it. I wish I had started using Linux regularly 20 years ago.
Honestly, you'll be better off getting into linux now than any previous years. It's pretty easy and practical these days especially with the push into the Steam Deck. It's pretty much plug(install)-and-play with most systems, there's only a few outliers like custom pc's and a small amount of games that will give you any sort of problems.
I run one windows, one mac, and like 5 linux machines. If you stick with the more popular linux distributions like debian you won't run into weird problems. It's only surfing weird distro's like elementary and pop OS that I've had to do further troubleshooting on.
Nah fuck that. Never 11. If I still use windows I'll run 10
Keep hoping.
Most users don't care that their OS is outdated or unsafe.
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