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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Linux@programming.devEnglish ·
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Microsoft delivers gut punch to PC charities with end of Windows 10
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Many donateable PCs can’t run Windows 11. Should non-profits still be giving them away? Should they install Linux instead?
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    It’s not about sales, 11 is a free upgrade.

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      On a machine that can run it. If you have one of the machines that are the subject of this article, the only upgrade path is to buy a new one, for which Microsoft takes a healthy OEM fee for including Win11. You can easily see that cost on devices like the Legion Go S that cost significantly less for the SteamOS version.

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          They’re the ones that keep making the requirements more and more unreasonable with every update.

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              Linux runs just fine in 4. Or much less. It depends a lot on what you use it for. My 486 had a whooping 32 Megs of memory and ran Linux just fine.

              Regarding MS, the main problem is the changing of the goalpost. And I’m not so sure there’s even any point to the whole TPM thing anyway.

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              The TPM chip is the issue here, and not a requirement under Linux.

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                  See that’s where you’re wrong though, because my computer does have a TPM chip and still can’t run Win11. That’s because Microsoft locked them down to v2.0 or newer ones and mine’s only a v1.2 chip.

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