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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 thunfischbrot »

ptx wrote: post #74
vunderba wrote: post #3

Anyone who still needs to run Windows 10 for whatever reason should switch over to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (version 21H2) which will continue to receive security updates up through 2032. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...

Well, not just anyone can buy a license for it. You need some sort of enterprise volume license agreement, as far as I can tell.

Within EU, you could buy licenses from one of the legal license resell markets. For everyone outside of reach of the law, there‘s massgravel.

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

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Post by Grombobulous »

osti wrote: post #21
vunderba wrote: post #3

Anyone who still needs to run Windows 10 for whatever reason should switch over to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (version 21H2) which will continue to receive security updates up through 2032. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...

Does that support modern gaming?

If you mean “modern” as in technologies like HDR, no.

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

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Post by noxer »

vunderba wrote: post #3

Anyone who still needs to run Windows 10 for whatever reason should switch over to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (version 21H2) which will continue to receive security updates up through 2032. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...

This is bad advice that is being repeated over and over by the so called tech influencers. You go to an older version that only got security updates so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10. And for the foreseeable future you gain nothing at all. If one day the normal version acctually stops reviving security updates, it almost certainly will be possible to switch the update channel to LTSC and get the LTSC updates that way but for now this is not needed and the switch is unnecessary Also without some trickery, switching to LTSC requires a complete reinstallation, which for most people likely wasting sever hours.

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

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Post by detritus »

semiinfinitely wrote: post #86
detritus wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of interest, what value do you think that a comment like that has, in a forum such as this? You're not likely to be informing people with information they're not already abundantly aware of. Whereas the person you're responding to is adding value, for me at least. I am in what might be an edge-case position where I need to run software specific to Windows and, much more importantly run hardware that uses drivers…

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Indeed, I'm fairly confident that I very specifically stated as much, as the fundamental underpinning of my comment.

You might be interested in https://www.reddit.com/ .

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

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Post by Grombobulous »

kgwxd wrote: post #29
osti wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that support modern gaming?

"modern gaming" being a euphemism for "more proprietary software that has chained us to even worse proprietary software for decades".

I don’t feel particularly chained to proprietary software just by playing games. I play all of them on Linux using open source software.

Yes, the games themselves are proprietary, but that’s because they’re primarily art pieces, and proprietary licenses makes some logical sense in that case.

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

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Post by semiinfinitely »

detritus wrote: post #97
semiinfinitely wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Indeed, I'm fairly confident that I very specifically stated as much, as the fundamental underpinning of my comment. You might be interested in https://www.reddit.com/ .

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

detritus wrote: post #69
giancarlostoro wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Out of interest, what value do you think that a comment like that has, in a forum such as this? You're not likely to be informing people with information they're not already abundantly aware of. Whereas the person you're responding to is adding value, for me at least. I am in what might be an edge-case position where I need to run software specific to Windows and, much more importantly run hardware that uses drivers…

Maybe not you, but many times I am asked what my setup looks like, because I game on Linux which is not as problematic as it used to be in the 2000s.
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