The ONLY thing I still apparently need Windows for is running OPL Manager and HDL Batch Installer for my Playstation 2 hard drives. Can anyone point me in a direction of Linux alternatives? I managed to get WinHiip running in Wine, but it can’t see the PS2 HDD from Wine. Pretty sure I need something that runs native, and for the life of me I cannot find anything. Which is really surprising to me.
Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I’d have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space
Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?
“But don’t learn about Windows 10 LTSC IoT!”
if i remember correctly, some ltsc versions will get updated until 2029
IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 - until 2032 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021
nice
One thing I would keep in mind is that the Win64 API does change from release-to-release and that my guess is that if very few people using a software package are still using a version of Windows, application software developers may stop intentionally avoiding newer API calls and features, and will just have their new release require a newer version of Windows.
That may be okay for some use cases, like if you just want to keep an existing system working with existing software. But I think that it’s worth keeping in mind that you may increasingly not be able to use:
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New software packages.
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Newer releases of existing packages.
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Software packages that make use of cloud-based services that drop support.
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New hardware that requires software support.
They’re probably going to take into account the percentage of people using the thing in setting their compatibility targets for developers and their testing.
Great advice. Here’s hoping the LTSC market share and user base noticeably increase once Win10 is no longer supported.
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“Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021” should be getting 10 years of updates, so until 2031.
Yeah just who exactly out there can you go to, to simply ‘trade in’ a computer? It’s not like a car where you trade in a car for another car.
I don’t really see an awful lot of computer trade-in programs, they aren’t just going to give you a beefy PC with Windows 11 on it for a computer you’ve ran a good 5 or more some odd years with Windows 10.
Where are you seeing this? Doesn’t seem like a typical Windows prompt.
Looks like an email
So probably phishing attempt that OP thinks is actually from Windows?
We just got this on all our Win 10 work PCs, too, from IT.
No, I can confirm I also got a Microsoft email. News search for this apparently shows they roll these emails out every so often.
Shows how untrustworthy the big companies are these days. We’re in JD Rockerfeller era Pt. 2.
Try Linux on it, specifically have a crack at raspberry pi os first. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ . See the section for Raspberry pi desktop for PC and mac .
Ah, got a little bit worried there, no linux propaganda in a whole bunch of replies!
Mint is so cool BTW, it’s like XP/Seven, it just works.
I’m getting annoyed with windows… I have a small laptop I like to use for streaming, and the stupid updates keep on maxing out the drive space… It is 32gb, and i can’t get it to download the updates on an external drive. I wish they’d have an option to turn off automatic updates, and just let me do a single click and download the updates manually to an external drive so i can have a usable goddamn computer.
Microsoft claimed that Windows is compatible with 32gb drives but that’s not actually true. Those will get automatically filled by winsxs updates within a few hours. It’s impossibile to use one of those windows mini PC with a 32gb emmc unless you exclusively use it offline for typing with a word processor.
All those $100 32gb emmc “computers” available on Amazon are just “direct to landfill” ewaste
I have the exact same problem. I’ve maxed out my hardrive and every week or so it complains that there’s no storage space and I’m like, I HAVEN’T DOWNLOADED OR INSTALLED ANYTHING IN MONTHS, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS YOU SHITTY OS! So I delete some stuff so it will continue to operate, maybe free up 1 or 2gb, and then a few weeks later it’s full again.
There also isn’t space to install Windows 11 😑 I only use it for DJing and I’m not sure you can run Rekordbox on Linux but I need to find out.
Haven’t had mine online for 4 years now and it still chugs along
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Yeah once windows 10 is done I’m moving to Linux. Use mint on the laptop but I’ll install it on my main PC unless valve launches steam os
I recommend you to use a regular Linux distro for your PC, SteamOS is always going to focus on handheld devices which may not provide de best possible experience for desktop. Bazzite seems to be the hot Linux gaming distro at the moment, it’s based on Fedora (my personal favorite, also a good option for gaming IMO). Maybe, give this one a try ?
I might have to give it a shot. I only use my computer for gaming so since I’m familiar with the steam deck I figured holo OS or steam OS or whatever it’s called would be nice. I’ll wait to see some reviews before I do it
I want steamOS too, but Ive been dual booting bazzite for a couple of weeks and I love it.
Its steam OS isn’t good or isn’t fully cooked I might grab bazzite and check it out
Still on a t430 lmao
It’s probably a non monitored email but I just replied, “I already switched to Linux because of this”
I just installed Mint instead.
Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it
