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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My 11 year old son does his homework and research on Linux Mint. After that, he sometimes plays some Minecraft or Valheim with his friends or does some drawings on his graphics tablet and listens to music or audio drama on Deezer. What else does your mom, that she cannot use Linux Mint?

[–] mob@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

The main point of the comment seems to be that his mother, who represents a demographic, would have trouble removing an OS from a machine replacing it with Linux.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This literally has nothing to do with what the previous poster said.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

My soon to be 4 year old is getting really good with the mouse and keyboard so we intend to set her up with her first computer for Christmas. I've got an old Lenovo Tiny with an i5-6500 and 8gb of RAM that I snagged from the junk pile at work that I'm going to setup with Mint or even just plain Ubuntu. I'm curious to see how long that PC lasts before we have to swap it out for something more powerful. Probably whenever she starts playing more demanding games that aren't just running from PBSkids.org