Comment by Zigurd
2 months ago
20 years ago my kids were getting hand-me-down work laptops with Linux installed on them. Apart from their peers thinking that they must be in some kind of cult, it did the job of keeping them much safer from malware.
Linux has been very usable for a long time. Windows 11, being deliberately unusable on older hardware that works perfectly well is enough incentive for more people to try an alternative. That's not going to move the needle in corporate IT but it's enough for a couple percentage points of the installed base.
> Windows 11, being deliberately unusable on older hardware that works perfectly well is enough incentive for more people to try an alternative
The extreme majority of users doesn't care about that, they'll stay on Windows 10, they don't give a single fuck about the fact that it'll stop receiving security updates.
The people who manage your work PC of course won't migrate away from Windows just because of Windows 11. But home users faced with a few hundred dollars of hardware replacement will probably consider a less expensive alternative. That might be just letting it rot. But it also might be ubuntu, mint, or Chrome OS
That's literally my point. Home users don't give a crap about the fact that their OS isn't supported anymore.