[mikepurvis]

This will be an interesting one to observe; will Canonical and others be able to capitalize on the Microsoft FUD around secure boot to convert users?

Alternatively, can the community come up with some interesting uses for all the machines?

[binkHN]

> Alternatively, can the community come up with some interesting uses for all the machines?

Google has targeted this model with ChromeOS Flex.

[pjmlp]

No, this has become a meme of the Year of Desktop Linux.

Everytime Microsoft does something that apparently pisses off people, we get tons of suggestions that now everyone is finally going to migrate in droves into GNU/Linux, and then nothing happens.

Meanwhile the only Linux based devices that are actually successful among normies, are those that hide the fact there is the Linux kernel running underneath, expose no CLI, and have everything done in basic graphical workflows without any FOSS religion.

Chromebooks, Android, DVD and BluRay players, TV setup boxes, SmartTVs,....

[mossTechnician]

One common suggestion I've seen: convert your old laptop into a server.