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Windows 10 is ending support in October, prevent e-waste, switch to Linux (endof10.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I look forward to companies dumping a bunch of cheap and powerful mini-PCs on the market. I want to play around with a home server.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you have a local college, get on their surplus mailing list.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How cheap have you seen the pcs go for?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There is a local tech, college, government ewaste facility near me.

I was recently bidding on fifteen 2u rack servers, fully equipped ready to plug and play essentially, but 5 years old. The entire lot sold for 700 bucks.

A second lot sold at the same time, twelve of exactly the same server slightly newer but less storage (only 50TB) that lot sold for 900.

edit Just Checked currently with 9h left there is a lot 25 OptiPlex computers (sans HD) for 135 dollars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I forgot to mention that most colleges will have an auction site too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I still have some stuff from a local oil and gas company, a collage, my local library and the national land survey org. I paid all of nothing for them, since these cost them money to dispose of.

Don't expect HDDs in them but surplus equipment is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My college doesn't actually resell computers, but that's because a local prison has a program where the inmates refurbish old equipment to send out to low income schools. But, considering most of this equipment won't be usable, I expect us to start selling it.

Based on the prices we sell other technology for, probably somewhere under $50. My guess would be $20.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the end of w10 support only affecting Windows home users, at least for now? E.g enterprise and other licences will still get support?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I switched to an IoT version of Windows 10 that's going to get security updates until 2032. (I have a Windows machine I still use for a certain piece of proprietary software.)