Yeah just who exactly out there can you go to, to simply ‘trade in’ a computer? It’s not like a car where you trade in a car for another car.
I don’t really see an awful lot of computer trade-in programs, they aren’t just going to give you a beefy PC with Windows 11 on it for a computer you’ve ran a good 5 or more some odd years with Windows 10.
While I agree this is a shit thing to do, I am looking forward to the influx of cheap hardware.
Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.
Anybody who asks me about Windows 10’s EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i’ll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops or spend money to stick with Windows.
this is literally E-waste
Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thingHold on to your butts.
Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.
Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it
end of support for windows 10
beginning of support for linux mint
“Trade it in or recycle it” basically means “your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill”.
This is incredibly infuriating and I’d honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.
Throw it away.
Gently
In my direction
Glad those tariffs hit just in time
Im so glad I fully switched to Linux a year ago. Never going back to Windows.
Holy shit they really just said, “throw it away”. Troglodytes!
Well at least the second hand laptop market will be flooded by the companies deciding to upgrade to newer laptops for Win11, so a small upside.
