Back in February I was fairly scathing about a news report that suggested that the end of support for Windows 10 would result in a tide of older machines incapable of running Windows 11 being dumped in landfill.
I still don't think that will be the case as regards home users and most corporates have made the jump already - most corporates replace machines every three or four years - but it is interesting that my favourite supplier of cheap refurbished laptops is running a promotion on cheap sub $300 laptops and almost all the machines are Windows 10 machines - most of their more expensive offerings are Windows 11 based suggesting that some corporate are already into their first Windows 11 refresh.
It also suggests that most of the buyers of refurbished machines are already on the lookout for a Windows 11 machine as a second machine, which does tend to suggest they are not installing linux on them.
And yet linux does have an advantage in that it is not the product of an American megacorp, and in these days of uncertainty about the USA and its role in the world, there may increasingly be people who would prefer their computer operating system to be independent of the megacorps.
And it's not just the paranoid - there are cases of various governments moving to linux, or at least experimenting with it as an option.
Perhaps and just perhaps, and given some people's dislike for AI in everything, the end of Windows 10 might nudge the uptake of linux on the desktop along a bit ...
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