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End of 10 – find someone local to help you install Linux (endof10.org)

submitted 3 months ago by JiffyBag@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help! Find someone to help you.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think it is a bad idea to help someone install Linux. It isn't that they shouldn't use Linux it is because they are dependent on you.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Ongoing support is a separate discussion... could be money, could be beer... but I agree, it should be discussed so that a dependency is understood / avoided

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The same could be said about Windows. It's a bad idea for people to use Windows without installing it themselves because they are dependent on MS and the OEM that installed it for them.

Better that they'd be dependent on someone that cares about them than soulless corps that just want to exploit them.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly they shouldn't get a Windows device either. Get a tablet since chances are they don't need anything more.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The same could be said about iOS and Android. We just gotta help people when we can.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.

If you can't do the easiest part of Linux you're going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.

Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.

The way the post is stated, my brain went, "here's your PC with Linux on it, bye."

[–] Nima@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

or maybe people can teach others. that's not a bad thing. learning from someone who instructs you.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

See, that'd make more sense to me. In my mind I was seeing someone just installing Linux and poof, that's it, you're on your own.

I should change my statement then; just installing Linux for someone is a bad idea. Stepping them through the small basics as you go is a good idea.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

I don't think it is rocket science to install Linux. You need some tech knowledge but not a ton.