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On 6/20/2025 8:04 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> For those with a computer that can’t handle Window 11, and who are
> caught like a deer in the headlights of the approaching end of support
> for Windows 10, there are 3 things you can do:
> 
> * Suck it up. Junk your existing machine and buy something more modern.

Which is the easiest solution for most situations.   Businesses have 
already done this.

Just like most people eventually buy a new(er) car.  Sometimes you just 
have to replace old stuff with new(er) stuff.  And Windows PCs still 
come in many price ranges.  A replacement could easily be less expensive 
than the 10 year old computer it is replacing.

But the reality is, very few people need to run Windows anything at home 
today.  Only businesses NEED to move to Windows 11.

> * Stick it out with an obsolete, unsupported OS. By all means continue
>    to run mission-critical business operations on it, and it will still
>    keep working fine ... until the day it doesn’t.

Why would it stop working?  Hardware failures, sure.  That can happen to 
anything.   But the software is not "obsolete".  Windows 10 will 
continue to run just fine.

For example.   My wife works in a research lab.   There are several 
machines there (Gas chromatography, etc.) that rely on Windows 10 PCs 
for control/results/reports.   These computers are NOT on the company 
network.   The only network is between the PC, the machine it is 
controlling and a local printer.   Thus, no chance of malware infections 
and also no critical need to upgrade.  These are definitely 
"mission-critical business operations".

Besides, unless you are talking about web apps, the "mission-critical 
business operations" that are currently running on Windows are not going 
to run on Linux.

So this:

> * Switch to some more modern OS that will be supported on your
>    hardware.

Is not really an option for most businesses.

And speaking of Modern OSes, home users who actually want/need a PC 
would be better served by a Mac than Linux.   Particularly if they 
already have iPhones and/or iPads.