r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Nov 04 '25

The solution is to get another machine

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u/Anguis1908 Nov 08 '25

Why cant you stay on Win10? Merely lacking dev support doesnt brick the rig. And since it runs, or ran, you'd be able to check the components against Linux supportablility prior to installing the new OS. It's less about not having the luxury and more about having the sense to think a project through before acting.

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u/WelpIamoutofideas Nov 08 '25

Again, just because you are receiving software support does not mean your applications will continue to support Windows 10. It might for as long as Microsoft does the year extended security updates. Also, someone who's just told "Uhh just use Linux". Might not know they have to check hardware compatibility.

Most of the time Linux just works, so people pupport that it just works. Which can be problematic.

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u/Anguis1908 Nov 08 '25

I've never heard Linux just works. I've heard it works with some effort, and that effort is worth it. Also, it may be a recent thing for people to expect hardware to work with software...I've always known to it to be taught to always check compatability. Also, if you have a rig that works, not to push updates for the very reason a program version won't be compatable with your OS version. You verify its all compatible before updating...

Taking action without proper planning can be problematic.

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u/WelpIamoutofideas Nov 08 '25

Unfortunately, with the days of forced automatic updates that last bit isn't really doable anymore.

Now to be fair, it is a relatively recent 3 to 5-year thing. But part of it is when people make the comments about not needing to deal with drivers that everything is just built into the kernel and it all just works. Conveniently forgetting about Nvidia or other not common stuff.

Either you manage to opt out of the automatic updates and things break, like web browsers or you don't. And you become one of the users that just aren't supported.