MS Windows – End of Life support
October 14, 2025, sees the End of support for Windows 10.
This leaves users with Several choices
Upgrade to Windows 11 on current hardware. This may or may not work and will only work if your current hardware meets with Windows 11 requirements.
Option 1, Replace Windows with something Like Linux Mint, you can keep working, use Firefox, LibreOffice, cloud services e.g. Nextcloud (even Windows drive) etc.
Option 2. Keep using Windows 10 without support, updates etc
Option 3. buy new hardware just so you can run Windows 11.
Linux Mint is Free (as in freedom) software, but does have some closed source components to make things work, this is fine, at least from my view point as most users, just want things to work out of the box.
There is an active support community on the Open Communications platform Matrix [3].
Links
- MS WIndows End of Life
- LinuxMint
- Matrix
- End of 10 – get help with installing a Linux distro
- Article on The Register
- End of 10: The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence
- KDE for Windows 10 Exiles
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#MSWindows,'#EndofLife,#Linux,#LinuxMint,#FreeSoftware,
#NextCloud,#Cloud,#EndOf10
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Repl.it desktop app error
I have downloaded the Repl.it app for GNU/Linux Amd64.
1. Switched to a root shell with su -
2. Navigated to where the .deb file was downloaded to
3. Entered the following
dpkg -i ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb
- And got the following output
dpkg-deb: error: archive './replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Issue seems to be the compression is using tar.zst, I have no idea what this is either, normally it is .tar.gz
Sharing here in case anyone else has a problem.
Update
Asked on the Replit forum and it seems it may have something to do with my Debian version, see post here
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#Coding,#Development,#programming,#Cloud,#Virtual,#replit
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CrypdPad 5 of 5 : Contents
I am posting this index to help people find the four posts from earlier today.
Quick index to Cryptpad post topics from today:-
It is free to sign up, easy to use, and respects privacy.
I can make more Cryptpad posts in due course. Feel free to follow me on Mastodon with the id @zleap@qoto.org">@zleap@qoto.org
#cryptpad,#kanban,#sheet,#writer,#code,#presenting,
#drive,#cloud,#storage,#files,#team,#privacy,
#encryption
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Overleaf Webinars August / September 2020
Overleaf are presenting their introductory Webinars in August and September.
If you are new to Overleaf then these are really useful to learn about the features from Beginner to Advanced.
#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#typesetting,#cloud,#Webinar,#Introduction,#Intermediate,#Advanced,#writing,#professional,#science,
#academia.
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