KDE for Windows 10 Exiles

23 June 2025, 08:55:56

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/kde_windows_10_exiles/

Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.

KDE's alarming "Exiles" page opens with the text "Your computer is toast" followed by a warning that Microsoft wants to turn computers running Windows 10 into junk from October 14.

"It may seem like it continues to work after that date for a bit, but when Microsoft stops support for Windows 10, your perfectly good computer will be officially obsolete."

Beneath a picture of a pile of tech junk, including a rotary telephone and some floppy drives, KDE proclaims: "Windows 10 will degrade as more and more bugs come to light. With nobody to correct them, you risk being hacked. Your data, identity, and control over your device could be stolen."

Support for many versions of Windows 10 comes to an end on October 14. While there are ways of keeping support going, by either using a different version (such as the Long Term Servicing Channel incarnation) or paying Microsoft to keep the security updates coming, if an upgrade to Windows 11 isn't possible or desired, then the computer will indeed be trudging toward its end-of-life.

There are many reasons why users have yet to move to Windows 11. Some are related to enterprise IT policies, others are down to users hating the cosmetic and feature changes in the new operating system. Then there are users with hardware that is happily running Windows 10 now, but won't run the upgrade thanks to to Microsoft's draconian hardware compatibility requirements.

Microsoft's solution to the latter problem is, unsurprisingly, to purchase new hardware. KDE's answer is a Linux installation and its shiny new Plasma Desktop.

Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles

Reply #1 – 23 June 2025, 10:04:16

wow.. that's brutal !

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/