Go Canes wrote: >> Does it need to be Windows? home user: > It does not *need* to be windows. It just seems to be the easiest way > to go. But I realize I could install something else over windows on > that box.
I might suggest, when your new PC is going well. Install another Linux to the old one, or try all the other desktops out (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, etc), and see what you think of them, when you have a box that you don't *need* to keep working all the time. > microsoft checked without my asking. It cannot be upgraded to 11. I > don't know how old the hardware is, neither does the person who gave it > to me. He seemed to think it's about 6 years old. There's a lot of objections to their behaviour, this time not just from geeks, but the general public who don't like the idea of wasting money and creating massive landfill. I've had non-computer-nerds get me to install Linux over the years, some quite elderly, because they've just got sick of Microsoft-caused problems. Like many, I'm sure their hardware requirements are artificial. Various people have claimed to bypass them, with arguers saying that soon that will debugged and made non-compliant again. I can imagine large corporate installations having some sway with demanding that they are NOT going to replace hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment to satiate Microsoft. Turn that into millions or billions of dollars worth when you lump many large organisations into that equation. The average person can't do that, though. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
