I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

Two weeks agone I acceptable speech my M4 MacBook Air and picked up a nine-year-old ThinkPad. It's 1 of an estimated 200 to 400 cardinal Windows 10 PCs that don't conscionable Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11. When Microsoft officially ended enactment for Windows 10 successful October, it became "obsolete." The solution, according to Microsoft, is to get escaped of it and bargain a machine that tin tally Windows 11.

But that's not bully enough. This ThinkPad - similar millions of different PCs successful the aforesaid vessel - is inactive perfectly functional. Its hardware is much than susceptible of mundane tasks. I've been utilizing it for web browsing, penning successful Google Docs, talking to my Verge c …

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