Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023

[stardepp]

@Catweazle I managed to upgrade my PC to Windows 11 thanks to the Deskmodder forum / wiki, even though my PC has an unsupported processor:

https://www.deskmodder.de/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_11_auch_ohne_TPM_und_Secure_Boot_installieren

[Pesala]

It seems that we are all fighting a losing battle with tech companies grabbing our data. Vivaldi can only do so much. I dare not upgrade to Windows 11. No doubt I will have little choice eventually, as none of my important programs run on other Operating Systems.

Maybe I will have one old PC for my publication work, and a new one just for browsing and email.

[greybeard]

@guigirl said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

install Crime

Crime.... I like that.

[DoctorG]

@greybeard I guess she meant: grime

[Catweazle]

I only have Groot

[leo32345]

Ironically they are making "Chrome OS Flex" that people can download onto their old computers that no longer get OS updates. I guess they are trying to push people that way.

[guigirl]

@leo32345 said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

people can download

Only those peeps ignorant of, or allergic to, or prejudiced against, lovely Antarctic flightless birdies.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl Penguins emit a cacophony and smell terrible. Just sayin'...

[guigirl]

@Ayespy Horrid penguinist!

[Aaron]

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

We'll see in 2025, if it stays the same, I'll move to Linux anyway.

That being the case, I recommend you switch to Linux as soon as possible/now. Especially if you have little or no experience with Linux as your everyday desktop. You have to consider whether the daily apps have corresponding Linux versions, and whether the data files supported by these apps communicate with others, whether the data formats of each other support each other. In other words, whether the entire software environment is compatible with the surrounding work environment. From my experience, two years should be enough for this switching process. Although there are still a few apps that must use the Windows version (such as Visio) (so I still run Windows occasionally in a virtual machine)
(Thanks Google Translation.....Vivaldi.....Come on Vivaldi)

[Catweazle]

@Aaron , I know, I'm not a newbee in Linux, because of this I know that for some tasks, Linux isn't the best option and the only what is posible to cover this is to use it in dual boot.
But this currently is changing and there are more and more companies and defs with soft also for Linux, not only games, but also official and profesional soft, until now only for Windows.
We'll see in2025, until now I don't see much use in moving from an OS that works exactly as I want (which has cost me a lot of dedication to do it, to throw out all the garbage that Windows comes with by default), to another OS that can't run some apps that I use .

[Eggcorn]

@Pesala said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

It seems that we are all fighting a losing battle with tech companies grabbing our data.

I'm more optimistic. Russia should switch over to Linux soon enough, with Microsoft boycotting the country. I expect many other countries to follow Russia's lead. In other words: Linux will explode in popularity, and likely displace Windows as the dominant desktop operating system.

[Catweazle]

@Eggcorn , very possible, at least here there are more and more stores that sell computers without OS or only with FreeDOS, the user can ask to install, with the corresponding fee, the OS he wants, either Windows for about €120 or Linux for the cost of the CD or the service (~20€), if he don't want to do it himself.
I think that sooner or later it will be the norm, if MS continues with its policy.

[greybeard]

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

older PC which are using W11without problems, because it's chipset is in the MS list, but mine isn't, despite fully meeting all other requirements

Same here. What the Heck!?

[Catweazle]

@greybeard , maybe it has something to do with the spy soft of W11, which don't work with some chipset
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/77410/you-won-t-be-able-to-run-windows-11-without-a-webcam-in-2023

[greybeard]

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

@greybeard , maybe it has something to do with the spy soft of W11, which don't work with some chipset

Well I do have a cam in my laptop... it has a wee bandage over it. Must've gotten hurt at some time .