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The End (of Windows 10) is nigh! KDE and many other Free Software communities kick off "End of 10" campaign (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Bro666@lemmy.kde.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

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[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the year of a cheap second hand laptop!

[–] RedSnt 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The end of manifest v2 is also nigh, less than a week away. It's all just coming crashing down this year.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm ootl on this and after a brief google search it seems like a big thing to be ootl on. What are some of the consequences of v2 ending?

[–] RedSnt 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Basically Google sits on so much browser market share that they decided to push a change through that'd benefit their business model which is ads and that means making adblocker extensions worse as @Kannushi_Link@lemmy.world points out. It's going to affect many other extensions, I imagine userscripts and userstyles will also be affected - if you use a Chromium browser.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The consequences of v2 ending is that you should use a non-Chromium-based browser, like Firefox or one of it's forks.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh well that's good for me at least sounds like it will be business as usual? I've been using Firefox since I think 2008

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Same.

It's also likely that Google will use/require manifest v3 to access some of their services (like YouTube) in order to more strictly apply DRM and prevent adblockers/third party players. That hasn't happened yet, but it's the kind of enshittification that these companies like to do.

[–] Kannushi_Link@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You can NOT use effective adblocker extensions with manifest v3, as it removed functions that they need (and impose some other limits to make them unable to update fast)

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

No it won't, don't buy into the Microsoft propaganda.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, they won't get updates; that's a security risk. They might not run Windows 11; that's e-waste unless they switch to Linux (with KDE for preference).

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

With the number of times a Windows update has fucked up my computer I'm genuinely more concerned about Microsoft messing up my computer than any hacker.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not a security risk to not get updates until there's a known remote code execution exploit in the wild, and by that point it'll be in the news and Microsoft will patch it anyway, like they did for Windows XP in 2017.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

and Microsoft will patch it anyway

... Or not. That is the point of ending support: they are not obligated to anything like that.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You may be missing the point.

The point is Microsoft wants to (again) force/trick/scam people into buying new hardware. Whether they are lying or not, whether there is a workaround or not, is not the point.

The point is the #Endof10 campaign wants to help people exit this cycle of spending, polluting and tech blackmail Microsoft subjects its users to by offering them an out, helping them switch to Free Software systems. Things like Plasma on Linux are perfectly adequate nowadays for most people—and notice the "most", please: I know there will always be edge cases that can't migrate

But, for most people, with a Linux system decked out with a modern desktop and applications? They will find all they need to carry on being productive on their current machines.