Still on W10 with 7 year old hardware. When it finally croaks, I will not be replacing the OS. MS once said W10 would be their ‘final’ OS and by Jove, I will make it so in my household.
Are you saying you just won’t compute anymore, or you will attempt to install a legacy OS on hardware decades after it will be obsolete? (Almost certainly won’t work)
For the WiFi, it doesn’t install the Broadcom drivers by default so once you install the os you have to keep the thumb drive that you installed from in, and go into the driver manager and it will detect your Broadcom and the driver will be selectable. Then your WiFi will work.
Trackpad: The cursor would randomly stop moving and you would have to pick up your finger and set it back down again to get it to start moving again. Annoying. I found that installing Synaptics solves that. Trackpad works great now.
I don’t know how to test graphics acceleration. But videos play fine and retro games from NES to PlayStation work great. Haven’t tried PS2+ or Xbox yet but we’ll see.
Still on W10 with 7 year old hardware. When it finally croaks, I will not be replacing the OS. MS once said W10 would be their ‘final’ OS and by Jove, I will make it so in my household.
Are you saying you just won’t compute anymore, or you will attempt to install a legacy OS on hardware decades after it will be obsolete? (Almost certainly won’t work)
I will be switching to Linux when either this hardware fails or W10 stops getting security updates.
Gotcha. That is a good plan. I still have a win 10 partition I rarely use but pop os is way more pleasant on a daily basis imo
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
To be fair though, for my ancient 2012 MacBook Pro, Linux Mint has made it actually useable and useful around the house.
I have a c.2011 MBP… did everything work automagically upon installation? Like WiFi, graphics acceleration, trackpad, sleeping, etc
Yes, on my 2015 one it even fixed my broken keyboard lol
Well, it took a little tinkering but yeah.
For the WiFi, it doesn’t install the Broadcom drivers by default so once you install the os you have to keep the thumb drive that you installed from in, and go into the driver manager and it will detect your Broadcom and the driver will be selectable. Then your WiFi will work.
Trackpad: The cursor would randomly stop moving and you would have to pick up your finger and set it back down again to get it to start moving again. Annoying. I found that installing Synaptics solves that. Trackpad works great now.
I don’t know how to test graphics acceleration. But videos play fine and retro games from NES to PlayStation work great. Haven’t tried PS2+ or Xbox yet but we’ll see.
I think the original commenter is saying they do not plan to replace it with something running W11.
Oh!
🤮 No thanks, just left, sick and tired of having personal information and my content stolen.