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2025 finally the Year of Linux? LibreOffice explains "real costs" of Windows 11

https://www.neowin.net/news/2025-finally-the-year-of-linux-libreoffice-explains-real-costs-of-windows-11/

A big change is coming to Windows PCs as Microsoft will soon end support for systems and devices running on Windows 10. As such, the company, alongside its partners like AMD, Asus, and Dell, have begun urging users to embrace the "mandatory Windows 11 upgrade."

The problem is that not every PC out there will be able to do so, at least not officially, as Microsoft had declared higher requirements for Windows 11 and thus many systems would be left out. Redmond's official stance for such situations is that users get a new computer by dumping their older system.

There is another option users have: switching to Linux. Back in January, earlier this year, ESET recommended that users do that if they can not upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 or perhaps when they do not want to.

Last month, KDE launched a new campaign dubbed "Endof10", which encourages users to make the jump. The project page explains several of the benefits of Linux over an unsupported Windows 10 system, like security and privacy, among others. And it also published another post earlier this month welcoming such "Windows 10 exiles".

Now, The Document Foundation, maker of LibreOffice, has also joined in to support the Endof10 initiative. The foundation writes:

"You don’t have to follow Microsoft’s upgrade path. There is a better option that puts control back in the hands of users, institutions, and public bodies: Linux and LibreOffice. Together, these two programmes offer a powerful, privacy-friendly and future-proof alternative to the Windows + Microsoft 365 ecosystem."

It further adds the "real costs" of upgrading to Windows 11 as it writes:

"The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates. It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration, forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services. It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models, and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed. Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.

Re: 2025 finally the Year of Linux? LibreOffice explains "real costs" of Windows 11

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I think this could make more difference to corporate, and large organisation, pc's than single user pc's.
They may decide to switch all their window 10 machines to FOSS if it's cheaper like the Gendarmerie did when XP support ended. I'm sure there are other examples.

Your average user is probably going to search "bypass windows 11 hardware checks" along with "install linux" and think the former sound easier. Some will switch though. I just doubt it will be floods of people. But I'd be happy to be wrong :)

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They may decide to switch all their window 10 machines to FOSS if it's cheaper like the Gendarmerie did when XP support ended. I'm sure there are other examples.
Like Denmark and the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany...


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Your average user is probably going to search "bypass windows 11 hardware checks" along with "install linux" and think the former sound easier.
Especially since there will be plenty of bugs due to Wayland. In "conspiracy" mode, I would tend to believe that the Wayland mess was organized to prevent people from installing Linux.



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Some will switch though. I just doubt it will be floods of people. But I'd be happy to be wrong :)
The most insightful and therefore the rarest.

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I think this could make more difference to corporate, and large organisation, pc's than single user pc's.
They may decide to switch all their window 10 machines to FOSS if it's cheaper like the Gendarmerie did when XP support ended. I'm sure there are other examples.

Your average user is probably going to search "bypass windows 11 hardware checks" along with "install linux" and think the former sound easier. Some will switch though. I just doubt it will be floods of people. But I'd be happy to be wrong :)


It mostly means something to small businesses, and maybe not.  We have been down this road before.  The contracts that small businesses have with MS and the industry specific  spin off products that they need are exploitative.   MS makes it always less expensive to just go along with more Microsoft and more dependent on MS software, like 365.

With large business, it is a slam dunk.  Contracts give a huge disincentive to use anything other than MS.