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Fin de Windows 10

Plutôt que d'acheter du nouveau matériel ou d'accepter les conditions de Microsoft, pourquoi ne pas redonner vie aux PC existants en passant à Linux 🐧 ?

Des millions de PC sont confrontés à l'obsolescence programmé par Microsoft 😡 🤢 🤮

Sachez qu'avec #Linux, il n'y a pas de déchets ☢️ ☣️ 🚯 électronique, pas d'obligation de vous séparer de votre tout nouvel ordinateur et vous faites un geste pour l'environnement 🌍 🌳 🐝🌾🌹🦋

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End of 10

Rather than buying new equipment or accepting Microsoft's conditions, why not revive existing PCs by passing to Linux 🐧?

Millions of PCs face obsolescence planned by Microsoft 😡 🤢 🤮

Know that with Linux, there is no electronic waste ☢️ ☣️ 🚯 , no obligation to separate from your brand new computer and you make a gesture for the environment
🌍 🌳 🐝🌾🌹🦋

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Old PC which had Win10, core I3 CPU and only 4GB RAM was (unsurprisingly) slow and laggy, as an experiment I installed #LinuxMint on it with lightweight #XFCE desktop.

It is a fair bit more usable now (still slightly laggy probably due to me transferring my entire camera roll from Dropbox which is currently hammering all the resources) - definitely has potential as a backup PC in the office for light admin tasks, it could handle MS365 web apps (which alas, get used a lot here as well as Sharepoint) - (even the network printer worked "out of the box" via CUPS!)

[This toot is direct from the PC via #firefox

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@valen1 @mbrdev True. The biggest impact comes from DE/WM, then from Point vs Rolling release model, and then disto-specific other small perks.
So, disto do matters but only after you make your mind about DE/WM :)

(When I switched to Linux after some distrohopping first I decided that #xfce was my thing, and then went to the most suitable disto for it, which was in my case #MXLinux )

Late last week, I dusted off a project that had been abandoned by one of our drive-by volunteers about three years ago.

I was strugglin' a bit getting the dependency restraints updated and re-familiarizing myself with the repo and publishing configurations. I think that's in good shape now & I can mostly focus on document conversion & layout.

Now that I've got more familiarity with #Sphinx and #pandoc than I did three years ago, I looking forward to making some progress this week.

It's been a long time itch to scratch of mine & now I've got some time & motivation. We shall see....

So...I booted an old #Linux partition from four years ago and it brought up a familiar #XFCE desktop with the classic CDE/Motif theme from a more civilized age, right where I left off.

I had "arch-audit" installed and did a security scan. I'm now updating all the security holes, including that notorious "xz" incident. I also removed the obnoxious Brave browser and replaced it with #Waterfox, which has been a delightful Firefox replacement for both the desktop and the hardened Android #GrapheneOS.

Feels good going back in time like it was yesterday.

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@stefano This is great news and certainly an improvement to both open source and FreeBSD.

While *I* would have preferred #xfce over #kde in the installer (because I am an XFCE user) that's not the point. The point being the FreeBSD team, based on user survey results, is *listening.*

To the people who leave comments like "it's too late" or "we already have Linux" then the point has been missed. What's great about #opensource is the plethora of choices. With #FreeBSD 15 offering #KDE, it means the quality of choices just improved.