Or you could leave it on
Also it is important to know where to spend a money. I think that almost all hobbies have some gear where the cheapest option is best.
From some more articles I grasped that it is shady. Some lobbying groups, secret commissions and stuff like that. They try really hard to not be the ones to point fingers at.
I think that there are more issues like archaic connectors and stuff like that. You can’t find new hardware with 30yo standard io.
The oldest version of Win I used was 95 about 2 years ago on chromatography machine (I think hplc or gas).
It is to my knowledge still in use in the school because the software don’t run on newer machines. The teacher told me that he don’t know what will he do when it dies. It isn’t really an issue on Linux.
It will be probably more. I talked with sysadmin from some smaller provider in my country few months ago. And he told me that the migration will take them for most systems about 2 years (depreciation of hardware) and for some machines about 5 years.
So lot of customers are in process of replacing it but it will take multiple years.
Does anyone want any toast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U