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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 palmotea »

RachelF wrote: post #60
senfiaj wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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.

> 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.

Can you elaborate on the "or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you" part?

Ctrl-F isn't finding any mention of that in either https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more... or https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-....

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

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Post by gunapologist99 »

nosioptar wrote: post #34
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...

I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia. The people I've switched from windows to Mageia since win11 all love it. (As great as Mageia is, it does have small repos compared to Debian or fedora.)

oh, it's the former mandriva, cool! but last released in 2023?! https://www.mageia.org/en/

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

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...

We had a PC that came properly-licensed with that edition of Windows (with the matching sticker and everything), and it didn't work out as a desktop machine for the intended user. It's been a year or two and some details are lost, but IIRC there were issues with some Intuit program or other.

It was probably something that could have been worked around, but workarounds tend to pile up and become difficult to track. I avoided the problem by putting a more-pedestrian version of Windows 10 on it instead.

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

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Post by dokyun »

thangalin wrote: post #85
ihalip wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It works well, though its messages could use some TLC: libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) libEGL warning: egl: fail…

wine whatever.exe 2>/dev/null

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

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Post by trashface »

The updates themselves can be a driver of new Win 11 computer purchases. My dad got a bad update (I couldn't figure out which one) which froze his computer a few minutes after boot. I had to reset Windows, and it worked again after that, though now the pain is mine because I have to reinstall/reconfig all his stuff. But a normal person without a free tech-support guy like me around might have just bought a new PC at that point.

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

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Post by jamesnorden »

noxer wrote: post #94
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 updat…

> so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10

Windows gets worse with each update, so this is actually a plus.

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

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Post by Grombobulous »

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-...

Yeah, TPM and secure boot aren’t a big deal at all. I use them on Linux as a security enhancement.

I really don’t know how a no-brainer security implement like that became such a lighting rod.

As far as React being used in the OS, well, if we are arguing about underlying technology there are plenty of flawed implementations to be found on a number of platforms. I don’t think the end user is concerned.

I say all this as someone who does not recommend Windows and no longer uses it, to be clear.

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