There is a way to circumvent the checker. I can’t remember what we did. It was like disable TPM maybe? If folks want to install W11 on their old computer.
Trade it in to who? Who’s buying PCs that can’t be used? I mean there’s the retro market, but AFAIK they aren’t buying anything after Windows XP.
The ONLY thing I still apparently need Windows for is running OPL Manager and HDL Batch Installer for my Playstation 2 hard drives. Can anyone point me in a direction of Linux alternatives? I managed to get WinHiip running in Wine, but it can’t see the PS2 HDD from Wine. Pretty sure I need something that runs native, and for the life of me I cannot find anything. Which is really surprising to me.
this is literally E-waste
Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thingGoodbye Windows, Hello Linux
Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it
Well at least the second hand laptop market will be flooded by the companies deciding to upgrade to newer laptops for Win11, so a small upside.
“Trade it in or recycle it” basically means “your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill”.
I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle they old but otherwise adequate system for, what to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.
I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can’t run any autodesk products on Linux atm… Revit, Autocad… Sad noises
This is incredibly infuriating and I’d honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.
Still on a t430 lmao
Use Linux. And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option. Its actually way ahead than Windows or Macos
Glad those tariffs hit just in time
They just try to force people to buy another PC and so many “computer ignorant” people will…poor old ladies who click on the ads…
