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?

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Personally I use Linux Mint on my other machine and Windows on my main PC

      Before Windows 10 goes EoL I’m going to get my NAS running a Windows VM for Fusion 360 and Lightroom and my main rig will be on Linux Mint as well

      I just need a need to finish my NAS rebuild to get everything rolling at full steam

      Unfortunately that means I need to stop buying car parts first

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          As your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. Bikes and bike parts are cheaper. And then you can have more bikes than cars, and more bikes to buy parts for. Wait, where was I going with this again?

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        7 months ago

        If you wanted to get rid of windows in general, Darktable seems to be a good alternative to lightroom, for raw editing. There’s a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials available.

        Not sure about Fusion 360 though… Maybe FreeCAD?

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          7 months ago

          Unfortunately FreeCAD is not as featur e rich as Fusion 360

          It’s getting closer but it’s not there yet

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      7 months ago

      My machine is 7 years old and runs fine on Windows 11. I don’t understand all these posts about Windows 11 not being supported. TPMs have been a thing for 10+ years now.