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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? (self.technology)

submitted 7 months ago by Brkdncr to c/technology

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Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[–] Plopp 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it will drive up cost, because all my future machines will have to be specced to be able to run Linux and Windows (in a KVM in Linux) properly at the same time with good performance.

[–] polygon6121 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do it already at work! Windows runs great in qemu.

There is a few things that we still need to move away from, app wise, that requires windows. But already I solve 95% of my work tasks in Linux. We will soon move all terminal computers in our production lines to Foss software and new stations run Ubuntu. Linux runs lighter and cheaper and easier to maintain and update and replace. We are super happy about it.

Best thing is, it will only get better!

[–] Plopp 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's great. I only struggle with how to split the hardware up between Linux and Windows, because I'd have to do most (but not all) of the demanding work in Windows, but that's only a fraction of the time, so then that hardware will be unusable the rest of the time when I'm just using Linux. Ah well, I'll figure something out, and I'd rather take unaccessible hardware 95% of the time than running Windows all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I run windows 10 in a docker container on Linux and RDP in from any computer. More lightweight than a full fledge VM. It comes with file system passthrough as a network folder.

I just stop the container when I'm done and return to my Linux desktop session.

[–] Plopp 1 points 7 months ago

The remote approach is very interesting. I should evaluate that. At least for some usecases.