It went into that good night pretty gently for me. I was only using it for amateur radio use and the occasional gaming session on my old T570. I put Bazzite Linux on it and I'll be damned, the thing launched and retrieved, from Steam, a Skyrim save from back in my college days. Now, it's not the most beautiful rendering of the game ever, but it plays.
I've got a backup of my files of course, but this mismanagement of what Windows 10 was supposed to be (the last Windows) combined with all of the new AI stuff in Win11 just wasn't worth the new hardware spend for an OS I only use occasionally. Most of my use is MacOS.
I've got a backup of my files of course, but this mismanagement of what Windows 10 was supposed to be (the last Windows) combined with all of the new AI stuff in Win11 just wasn't worth the new hardware spend for an OS I only use occasionally. Most of my use is MacOS.