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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice
Many donateable PCs can’t run Windows 11. Should non-profits still be giving them away? Should they install Linux instead?
“Deploying Windows 10 at this time is a bad idea,” Chester Wisniewski, who serves as Director and Global Field CISO for Sophos, a major security services company, told us. “What we decided to do is one year ahead of the cutoff, we discontinued Windows 10,” said Casey Sorensen, CEO of PCs for People, one of the U.S.’s largest non-profit computer refurbishers. PCs for people then wipes the drives, puts on a fresh OS and even replaces laptop batteries if they don’t hold a significant amount of their original charge.
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