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.

this is literally E-waste
Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thing

Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux

Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it

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.

Wine will probably run it fine. Try posting to the linc gaming community though

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 their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.

Anybody who asks me about Windows 10's EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i'll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops or spend money to stick with Windows.

This is incredibly infuriating and I'd honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.

Glad those tariffs hit just in time

Use Linux. And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option. Its actually way ahead than Windows or Macos

Im so glad I fully switched to Linux a year ago. Never going back to Windows.

I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can't run any autodesk products on Linux atm.... Revit, Autocad... Sad noises

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...

Throw it away.

Gently

In my direction

Hold on to your butts.

Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

end of support for windows 10

beginning of support for linux mint

I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….

I installed graphyOS on mine

I just installed Mint instead.

That moment when Microsoft tells people to throw away perfectly good working computers because they're running Windows 10. When Windows 10 was just coming out or had just come out, Microsoft promised that Windows 10 would be the last OS of theirs, and there would only be updates. Also Microsoft is constantly sending messages to people running Windows 10 urging them to update.

The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*

Sweet, bunch of cheap laptops about to flood the market

Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 ... what's the issue?

Holy shit they really just said, "throw it away". Troglodytes!

What a coincidence, the end of my support for windows is also approaching.

jk I srubbed that shit from my personal devices years ago after graduating.

This is the biggest garbage a tech company did to almost 256 million PCs in use and fully working. I installed Linux Mint on all three PCs I own. Free and works far better than I thought.

Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading

Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations

And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can't support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?

Weird hill to die on perhaps; but I'll never forgive Microsoft for arbitrarily deciding to not support my Core i7 6700K 4Ghz CPU on Windows 11.

Simply because: I cannot find a single actual technical reason why it wouldn't be compatible (yes, my mobo also has TPM). It's even higher specced than many other 'supported' chips.

MS apparently just decided I hadn't spent enough money lately. Well now I won't - on your products - ever again, while this i7 will continue to run Win 10 for games and Linux for all else.

Just recycle that shit! Here's my...and address where you can recycle it to....

BUY A COMPUTER ALREADY YOU CHEAP F*****!!!

Yeah I lost it when I saw this too. But, because I waited so long to switch to Linux, it’s to the point where I feel it has so much of what was lacking the last time I used it. Easily over ten years ago. Thank you to everyone who slogged through it to get here.

I said from the beginning that the tpm 2.0 requirement was a way to make people buy new pc's. Good news for me who wants a laptop upgrade.

Isn't Windows 10 suppose to be the last Windows release? We changed our minds.

Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I'd have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space

Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?

What a coincidence - I stopped supporting it too!

Guess my parents will continue and will use unsupported OS in the future. Maybe i install Linux to my mother, as a beta tester for the family when i go visit them in the summer.

Time to encourage people to switch to Linux instead

You should have thrown Windows away at the beginning of the century.

"Trade it"

TO FUCKING WHOM? The whole point is that you made it useless.

(Unless this is Microsoft providing some free advertising for Linux)

I mean, what do you expect them to say?

"Time to install Linux, here's how you chose a kernel:"

Before you recycle your Windows 10 PC (or just switch to Linux and avoid wasting resources), keep in mind while Windows 10 22H2 is ending in 7 months, 21H2 LTSC Enterprise is still good for 1 year 10 months:

https://endoflife.date/windows

To download the 21H2 LTSC, go here:

https://archive.org/details/en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_202301

Then generate a free license key using the Ohook or KMS38 methods via PowerShell as explained here:

https://massgrave.dev/

Disclaimer: I haven't tried this myself so there may be some bugs/issues along the way. For my next laptop, I'm thinking about switching to Linux and specifically Ubuntu or Fedora, so this won't really impact me

For people who still need Windows:

I have a 10-year-old Surface Pro 4 and I was able to freely upgrade to Windows 11 and it works fine. It wasn't technically supported but I enabled preview builds or something like that (I think I had to enable the Insider program) and it showed up as a Windows Update. I don't know if this is applicable to all PCs that don't support Win 11, but surely it's applicable to some of them that Windows says don't support Win 11.

Windows 11 is the most secure Windows ever built

They've been saying that about every single one since that notoriously insecure one. ME, I think?

Also, I'm pretty sure that Tiny11 or the like is more secure if you consider data privacy important, since a lot of the privacy issues of Windows 11 are coming from the unnecessary parts of Windows itself..

Ugh. I'm going to have to seriously look at Linux, aren't I?

Absolutely no idea where to start with that, nor whether any of the software I need for work (or indeed anything else) is compatible, not how I'm going to find the time to learn all this.

Bleugh 😔

EDIT - Just want to say thanks to everyone for all the helpful tips and advice below. Will make it my mission this summer to at least understand Linux better and work out if it's for me. Cheers, you lovely people 👍

I took the last message I got from them as an invitation to ditch Windows for Linux. Now I wish I did that earlier!

Ltsc iot win10 is supported for years to come 🏴‍☠️

“But don’t learn about Windows 10 LTSC IoT!”

They're not even ashamed of intentionally creating e-waste for people that don't know that Linux exists

Windows 10 LTSC is supported until 2032, and is free to pirate.

recycle it

Haha, like in the landfill or the incinerator?

Anything but the penguin😂

They act like the computer's just going to stop working or something... People are going to use win 10 out of support for years.

E: specifically note, please, that i said "act". I'm aware they state it will keep working in the little FAQ.

Infuriating for sure. People can’t afford groceries or rent and Microsoft chooses to ride in with a, by the way, your computer needs to go, just buy a new one, k?

Time to Linux it up!

Yeah once windows 10 is done I'm moving to Linux. Use mint on the laptop but I'll install it on my main PC unless valve launches steam os

Meh, I just saw this banner on my Win 10 desktop, which is not compatible with Win 11, I'll just put Linux on it.

For those who is not quite ready for Linux and don't want to be left behind, you have options.

Do a search for Tiny11. It's super lightweight and you can set what you want to share with MSFT.

Old machines can run as well.

i like how you made up a quote from the post.

The only thing turning. To waste is the motherboard right? It sucks, but throw out a whole computer because of a motherboard is a wacky move.

Try Linux on it, specifically have a crack at raspberry pi os first. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ . See the section for Raspberry pi desktop for PC and mac .

I'm getting annoyed with windows.. I have a small laptop I like to use for streaming, and the stupid updates keep on maxing out the drive space.. It is 32gb, and i can't get it to download the updates on an external drive. I wish they'd have an option to turn off automatic updates, and just let me do a single click and download the updates manually to an external drive so i can have a usable goddamn computer.

something something windows ltsc versions

I upgraded to Windows 11 it's not that bad.

Where are you seeing this? Doesn't seem like a typical Windows prompt.

That's insane

They aren't wrong

Don't blame them for Microsoft cutting support

Whoops my bad