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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)

submitted 10 months ago by IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years.

Research from Canalys shows that up to 240 million PCs globally could be terminated as a result of the shift over to Windows 11, raising critical questions about device refreshes and the responsibility of vendors to extend life cycles.

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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fucking M$ being M$

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What?

Minimum system requirements for installing Windows 11 on a PC mean users must have a processor of at least 1 GHz or faster along with a minimum of 4GB RAM. Storage requirements are also set to a minimum of 64G

Like you can’t exactly blame MS for people still using old arse components.

Likewise if people wanted they could keep using windows 10 or switch to a Linux distro to keep the machines running.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's mainly businesses and not users who will keep using it without support.

As for the other I switched to Linux, but I can't seem to keep it running. I currently have no computer until I get another distro onto a bootable USB. Fortunately my /home partition seems fine but my root partition broke. It would start in recovery mode but not otherwise. Tried fixing it and now it's broke worse.

I'm a very technical person. Expecting people to move to Linux because they don't want or have TPM2.0 is not going to work.

[–] lameJake@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

It would because they don't do stupid things with their PC unlike technical people like you and me. My dad has a laptop running Linux for years now and it never broke because he doesn't mess with it.

[–] ArmoredGoat@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

What would someone prevent from installing another OS like Linux? This way, the devices wouldn't have to be thrown away and could be sold. But in the end, corporations would rather throw them away than to resell them as it would be cheaper and less hassle to do so...