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Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Untested workarounds

As a personal user, here's what I'm hoping will work to keep my i5 DDR3 PC viable for a few more years:

1) Activate Windows ESU https://massgrave.dev/

2) Use Legacy Update https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate

I'd love to switch to Linux but it just doesn't have the all applications I like to use.

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop

Linux is never Windows.

Linux and Windows are fundamentally different operating systems. They differ in architecture, file systems, system calls, user interfaces, applications, and software ecosystems. Dressing Linux to look like Windows does not change these underlying differences. Many Windows applications do not run natively on Linux, and those that do often require compatibility layers like Wine. Wine does not feel like Windows and often lacks the same behaviour, interface consistency, and support for features such as system integration, shell extensions, and certain Windows-specific APIs. Any attempt to make Linux behave like Windows results in a system that is neither fully Windows nor a true Linux, often reducing Linux to a simplified or compromised version of itself.

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Where are the native applications?

Choice of OS is not an issue. Where are the native applications to replace the ones I'm used to?

How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

Unfortunately the QL was not backwards compatible with the ZX Spectrum.

Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS

> which later sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.

The spark was Columbia Data Products doing a clean room design of the IBM PC BIOS.