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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] PassingThrough@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you game at all? Gaming on Linux has made great strides, be be fair, but for a lot of titles you still need to consider a dual boot of some form of Windows, thanks to over the top anti-cheat, DRM, and developer support.

Something to consider for the gamers out there.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The only titles that don't work in Linux are the ones with invasive anti-cheat, some multi-player titles.

Virtually all single players game work. I've had games that don't work on Windows due to crashes / performance but run on Linux.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Game pass games also do not work afaik.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Apex started acting up on pop a year and half ago which drove me back to my windows partition (that I hadn't seen in almost 18 months).

I don't know if my issue is: pop, proton, steam, apex, my hardware(bad ram?), flatpaks, the deb, or something else. In my opinion it's one of the toughest part about Linux gaming--when something goes wrong you arent going to find a ton of help since there is so much fragmentation.

But anyway, I echo your sentiment. Windows is still a necessary evil for a lot of us if you are big into PC gaming.