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how is this a hard choice? windows will keep ratcheting to shit. it will not improve. the question is: linux now, or tons of expense and trouble, and linux later?
The choice is hard because many charities already have a hard time maintaining what they have. To move to linux, they'd need people to know linux. Many volunteers that support this stuff simply don't and are barely power-users themselves. I spend a good chunk of my day interacting with JUST windows users who have no idea how a computer actually works... they just know how to barely operate windows.
I would also like to mention the situation of printers. I can get my office printer working on chromeOS, Windows, Mac, but no Linux distro (other than chromeOS) wanted to play nice with it.
okay but windows will at some point become unusable. that's not a question, that WILL happen. I already find it frustrating.
so do you rip off the band-aid, or spend a bunch of money to let the wound keep festering, then have to rip off the band-aid even worse later?
Why would windows 10 magically become unusable? It's not like Microsoft is going to send out a firmware brick at the EoL.
You know that you can still install XP today and get online... With minimal work you can actually get online completely on modern sites.
The same could be said for any linux distro.
I don't expect it, but I would only be slightly surprised.
yes. windows xp was a fully local OS, and when you installed it, you stilled owned your computer. these things are not true of windows 10.
sure, and I could say you're a chainsaw juggling pedophile lizard person who came from the future to make sure flavored foams don't have a resurgence in upscale dining at any cost because the consequences, drawn out 200 years, are so much worse than fascism and several possible extinction events. saying shit is easy. doesn't make it true.
...does it? do you need a heated rock?
Yes you can? It's windows 11 that tries to lock you out, and even then you can install it without internet if you know the magic incantation...
But windows 10 will just install with a local account if you don't give it internet (unplug ethernet and never setup a wifi).
The fuck? Any linux install will eventually become unsupported. That is my claim to counter your nonsense claim of Windows becoming unusable.
Go take your pills.
could say the same about literally any software.
I mean, i proved that I could say it. and proved how little impact saying it had upon the facts. whether or not you're a chainsaw juggling pedophile lizard-person from the future, here to save us from unfortunate upscale dining trends. you either were or you weren't, and me saying it changed nothing.
they update pretty cleanly without anti-features. it's just a version numbering thing, dude. im sure there's some old hardware that's been dropped, but I'm running some pretty out-there linux installs on pre-2010 hardware with no difficulty.
There's a barrier of entry to linux for sure BUT it really depends on the distro.
The issue I think is "marketing". I'm sure most of these computer agnostic folks would be fine using Linux Mint or Ubuntu but to someone who doesn't understand these things, just the fact that there's a choice to make there is probably barrier enough.
If we lower the barrier of entry for installation and choice for them, the decision to switch becomes way easier, I think.