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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by LocalH »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #8
greenavocado wrote: post #4

You can get a completely minimalist Windows 11 by grabbing an ISO from Microsoft then reprocessing the ISO by feeding it into this utility: https://github.com/christitustech/winutil (Win11 Creator Tab) to get a NEW ISO which you then install. The end result is an extremely clean and stable Windows 11 installation. The resulting image can remove telemetry, bypass hardware requirement checks, and enable local account s…

To anyone reading this: please don't use ISOs downloaded from not-official sources. Use an autounattend.xml, the mass graves, and a WinGet JSON to customise an online image. [1]: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/package-manager/wi...

I use uup dump myself, which downloads the components directly from MS and builds the ISO locally

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by ihalip »

vunderba wrote: post #47
giancarlostoro wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux is free and less wasteful on resources on the other hand.

It is, and if you can switch, it’s highly recommended. I have some pretty bespoke old RS-232 Windows software that was an absolute disaster to get working under Debian with Wine a few years back, so I (and others) might still need to keep a copy of Windows around.

Might want to try again, Wine progressed a lot in the past couple years.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by McGlockenshire »

freediddy wrote: post #40

Why does Windows 11 still have "Control Panel" and "Settings", both of which are similar but entirely different? I hate Microsoft, I was very happy with Windows 10 but Windows 11 is different for no reason except to be different.

The reason for this is that there are still drivers for old hardware that hook into the old control panel elements to actually function.

If you get rid of the control panel applets, you break the drivers.

This is also an old and out-of-date complaint. Almost all of the settings are now inside the Settings application and only inside the Settings application, with the related control panel applets gone.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by AlexandrB »

The old "Windows alternates good and bad releases" rule is dead and buried. Every major version since Windows 7 has been a downgrade on what came before. I'd rather be using Windows 8 than Windows 10 and you will have to drag me kicking and screaming into Windows 11.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by Terr_ »

jmclnx wrote: post #6
jbird99 wrote: post #2

Especially with hardware prices at the moment, this is a welcome announcement for many companies right now who need a refresh.

And sad for us. We may have to wait for nice cheap used hardware for use with Linux or *BSD. But I wonder if components would have been stripped out due to AI. I heard even older RAM and SDD/HDD are getting expensive.

At least in a desktop context, you can get by with just a separate drive to boot-to.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by pizza234 »

greenavocado wrote: post #4

You can get a completely minimalist Windows 11 by grabbing an ISO from Microsoft then reprocessing the ISO by feeding it into this utility: https://github.com/christitustech/winutil (Win11 Creator Tab) to get a NEW ISO which you then install. The end result is an extremely clean and stable Windows 11 installation. The resulting image can remove telemetry, bypass hardware requirement checks, and enable local account s…

NTlite has also been around for more than a decade, although it has a freemium model.

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by bluescrn »

mawadev wrote: post #11

What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. Now we have a hardware shortage and ai in everything. I miss the time when it was "My computer" and not "This PC". I just hope they keep Windows 10 around till 2030 and longer...

Requiring a sodding Copilot advert on the keyboard too, in the case of laptops..

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by RachelF »

senfiaj wrote: post #22
mawadev wrote: post #11

What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. Now we have a hardware shortage and ai in everything. I miss the time when it was "My computer" and not "This PC". I just hope they keep Windows 10 around till 2030 and longer...

>> Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. For me a bigger concern is that Windows 11 requires MS account, and making harder and harder to bypass it. This is a disrespect for my freedom and privacy. The hardware is not the biggest issue because it might catch up eventually. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-...

And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.
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