e-waste crisis

  1. End of Windows 10 Support in 2025: Transition to Linux and New Migration Tools

    As the end of support for Windows 10 looms on the horizon, millions of users are confronting a major turning point in the daily life of their computers. The October 14, 2025, cutoff marks not just the end of critical security updates for what remains the most widely used desktop operating...
  2. Navigating the Windows 10 Support Cliff: How Communities Are Embracing Linux for Sustainability

    As Windows 10 races toward its official end-of-life, a moment of reckoning is looming for millions of users—and for the computers they depend on. Within four months, Microsoft will withdraw critical updates, leaving anyone still running the nearly decade-old operating system adrift in a sea of...
  3. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Navigating E-Waste, Security, and User Frustration

    Windows 10 users who find themselves unable—or unwilling—to upgrade to Windows 11 have been facing a growing sense of uncertainty as Microsoft marches steadily towards the operating system’s End of Support date in October 2025. With roughly 400 million devices estimated to be stuck on Windows...
  4. Windows 10 End of Support: Challenges, Risks, and Environmental Impact

    As Microsoft approaches the end-of-support date for Windows 10, a wave of controversy has engulfed the tech giant’s latest decisions regarding extended security for older PCs. Despite a recent move to offer free Extended Security Updates (ESU) to Windows 10 users—alongside traditional paid...
  5. Microsoft’s Windows 10 Support Wind-Down: Impact, Alternatives, and Future Outlook

    Microsoft’s gradual approach to winding down support for Windows 10 sits squarely at the center of a growing storm, with privacy advocates, environmental campaigners, enterprises, and everyday consumers all questioning the company’s motives, methods, and the real-world consequences of its...
  6. End of Windows 10 Support in 2025: Embracing Linux for Security, Sustainability, and Control

    As October 14, 2025 approaches, the world stands on the threshold of a dramatic shift in personal and enterprise computing. Millions of users—ranging from home enthusiasts to Fortune 500 corporations—are confronting an inevitability: Microsoft will end all official support for Windows 10. This...
  7. KDE as a Sustainable Alternative: Helping Windows 10 Users Transition Amid E-Waste Crisis

    As millions of users around the world brace themselves for the rapidly-approaching end of support for Windows 10, a new reality is setting in for consumer and enterprise alike: a vast swathe of perfectly serviceable PCs faces planned obsolescence. In this pivotal moment for operating systems...
  8. Windows 10 Support Ends in 2025: How to Protect Your PC and Prepare for the Transition

    You might want to take a seat and cling onto your closest desktop, because if you’re reading this on an aging Windows 10 PC, the digital hourglass is tumbling dangerously low. Microsoft, in a move that has left users gasping more than Clippy at a cybersecurity conference, has urged—nay...
  9. Microsoft Windows 10 End-of-Support: Challenges, Risks, and Future Solutions

    As the sun sets on Windows 10, the global tech community faces a seismic shift: Microsoft's planned end-of-support for the venerable operating system threatens to render up to 400 million computers obsolete and sow the seeds for one of the largest e-waste surges in history. This looming...