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Let's make Windows 10 the last version ever used!

*Sat. 28 Dec. 11h* Stage YELL #KDEEco 's Call To Action against e-waste driven by #Windows10.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/opt-green-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/

*Mon. 30 Dec. 13-15h* B&B habitat join the BoF to organize a global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of Windows 10's EoL in 2025, the role of software in #eWaste, and how independent, sustainable #FOSS is a solution to keep devices in use & out of the landfill.

https://fahrplan.alpaka.space/jugend-hackt-38c3-2024/talk/ST8NJA/

#38C3 #KDE #OpenSource

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[–] gyro@chitter.xyz 22 points 5 days ago (7 children)

@be4foss
@kde @NafiTheBear

I would really love it if we could get normal people using Linux but Linux has to come to them in terms of usability, to be honest. The Steam Deck did it, so it's clearly doable.

But in the state of things we're in, I'm afraid that *most people* are gonna follow Windows to Windows 11. and their understandings of how computing is will be mutilated by it.

and therefore we get more anprims per capita, because if you think that's not at least in part downstream of big tech fuckery you're lying to yourself

[–] kyle_pegasus@scalie.club 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

@gyro @be4foss @kde @NafiTheBear i think a significant amount of people are going to just not bother buying another laptop once their Win10 one sucks too much, because they're on their phones for everything these days

[–] gyro@chitter.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

@kyle_pegasus
@be4foss @kde @NafiTheBear

Well that's depressing, that gonna put us so much further away from ever making things good again

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's certainly an interesting move from the side of Microsoft. Discontinuing W10 will certainly lose them some marketshare.

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