End of 10 - Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux:
Stumbled on this website today.
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Nioce 
more users for this site 
Hello,
going to Linux isn’t that easy, especially on Samsung and Acer laptops. Their BIOS/UEFI doesn’t show anything like Secure Boot, Legacy Boot, CSM, etc.. making it impossible to boot Linux distros like UBUNTU, MINT, ZORIN, etc. Although these have the possibility to boot in UEFI mode and have the Microschoft approved signatures.
Any known workarounds ?
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I currently own an Acer laptop from 2017, I use this system for work so I’m forced to use Windows. But I tried to install with success Linux (POP and Debian) couple of times.
I remember in stock bios there’s an option for switch from UEFI to legacy mode and viceversa. You need to reboot computer after configure this settings.
Let us know.
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Yes this website encourage users to switch to Linux. But but…
One other possibility for security reasons could also be switch to Windows 10 LTSC 21h2 IoT Enterprise wich is having support by M$ until 2032.
One other option is switch to Windows 10 LTSC 1809 wich is having support by M$ until 2029.
One other option is keep using Windows 10 PRO beyond october 2025, but you need to have a strong antivirus and you might survive creating a virtual network between router and computer.
Let’s say altough Windows 10 PRO and Home won’t be supported anymore by M$ from october 2025, I’m pretty sure software companies will continue release their software available for this OS for many years, I expect more then 5 years for sure.
If you are a user that use computer for play videogames you should switch to Windows 11 soon, if you are an intermediate user you might consider one of options I typed, and if you are base user you might enjoy some easy Linux distros. Source: my mom uses Linux as well, and she does not nothing more surfing the web and reading email.
Oh interesting. I did not know this!: