Do you buy expensive things?

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Why not give Linux a try? Perhaps Ubuntu, Mint, or some other entry level Linux system?

There is no reason to keep suffering through Windows unless you need to run software that requires Windows. If not, drop it and don't look back.

How about refurbished? I've had good luck with computers from Discount Electronics. On computers, they typically have a year warranty.

Right now, they have two or three brand new out of the box (but probably spent four or five years in the box) Dell computers for $299 each.

Most of my computers are refurbished. The first thing I do with any refurbished computer I buy is to get rid of Windows and install either Linux for a workstation or OpenBSD for a server.

So then you get Linux which is about as user friendly as a poke in the eye.

Yes, I buy food. Food is expensive. Especially nutritious food. But people need food to survive and it's one of the basic human rights.

Well, I'm currently in the middle of a four-year process which I'll be lucky to have paid off 100 years after I die. So yes.

I don't buy expensive things unless I need them though. For one thing I'm a college student so I don't have any money, but also I just don't see the point in spending a lot of money on something I don't need. The things I don't need I either buy for small amounts, get as gifts, or make.

You're right, in the sense that Microsoft will end free support then. But there are alternatives to buying a new computer:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... ober-2025/

Personally I don't trust Microsoft's ability to upgrade a Win10 computer to Win11, but that view isn't based on bad experiences. Just that I have no experience at all in doing that, and I've heard a lot of horror stories about Microsoft updating Win10 and breaking stuff.

I'm also a tad wary of that website's advice because they speak pretty well of Google's Chrome OS, confining their warnings to the thing about it being "limited" in what you can do with it. In my view, Google is a thoroughly nasty company, but I suppose it could be argued that Microsoft is barely any better. I'm sure Linux is good, but in my case I want to keep on using my legacy Windows programs. If I'd gone for Linux when I started out with computers, I'd probably love it, but I hate the thought of all that learning I've gone through on Windows going to waste and having to start again.

Me, I quite like the idea of coasting along with Windows 10 beyond the end-of-service deadline. I've done that with Win7 but haven't come to any harm yet. They're right that the Web will gradually stop supporting Win10, but there'll probably be a few years till that gets too bad to continue. There's no hard-and-fast answer. It's just such a crying shame that people are having to spend hundreds replacing good equipment just because the Big People are forcing them into it. Planned obsolescence ought to be a hanging offense. Global warming just round the corner and they want us to buy new computers every 3 years.

I upgraded my previous Dell desktop PC from W10 to W11 with no issues. If anyone wants to buy it they can have it for £100 plus postage costs.

Just PM me.

From my point of view, Linux is far more user friendly than Windows.

My experience with Linux is you have to spend hours googling to get anything to work.