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Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Based on my conversations with my clients, it seems like the 2025 date is going to result in the greatest Linuxing of all time.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

as an avid multi-decades linux desktop user who has worked at a company with people in it before, i believe there is no way in fuck that this is true.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I work in industrial automation and I don't see how it could be possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know right? I don't even let Rockwell run in anything but a VM by itself after it wiped my C drive. Happened to some other people at last job too. I could explain it better, but it would be exhausting and stressful to go on another rant about their awful software.

I would love for Siemens and Rockwell software to work in Mac and Linux. Or half of the other random utilities for various hardware components. I just don't see it happening. At least Ignition is agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Before my current job I was in a small business with no IT (I did all of the IT work, actually. Kinda poorly) and I could manage my laptop however I wanted, so I ran Linux with VMs for industrial IDEs, I mean you have to use VMs anyway, right? It fucking rocked. I don't know if it was the laptop (XPS 15), or virtualbox, or Linux, but it was way snappier than my current setup (windows Zbook with VMware).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re right in that this isn’t true of your typical working folks who use Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, or specialized design software.

There are a lot of folks who just use their computer for a web browser. When you tell them that their hardware, some of which is as young as 2017, will lock them out of security updates in two years, they’re pretty receptive to alternatives like ChromeOS or Linux.

For some of the older population, the simplicity of such options is a huge perk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

most people are not "installing an operating system"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

The year of the Linux desktop is upon us. The prophecy has been foretold by the sages of the code. A new dawn is on the horizon. A new era of freedom an power approaches as more and more disks are cleansed by the mighty forces set free by Stallmann and Torvalds. No more shall the users be enslaved by proprietary software and restrictive licenses.

The Year of the Linux Desktop is upon us, and nothing can stop it.