Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025 • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by hulitu » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 9:53 PM UTC

rasz wrote: post #25

wvbdmp wrote: post #12

I keep telling people they’re not going to get owned just by booting a Windows 10 machine after october 14. Most people visit Google, Amazon, Youtube, Pinterest and Netflix and not much else. If you run sketchy stuff and click sketchy links, you could get owned under support, too. And if the NSA wants to spy on you specifically, Windows 11 isn’t going to stop them. The most pressing (non-compliance) reason to upgrade…

You are losing against Microsoft marketing. In Europe one of the biggest electronic chains MediaMarkt (think bestbuy in its heyday) is currently running commercials targeting older audience and clearly co-financed by Microsoft. Its all about dangers of doing basic ecommerce on "old unsupported computers" and how you are going to have all of your data and identity stolen if you dont upgrade _right now_ to a new comput…

> In Europe one of the biggest electronic chains MediaMarkt (think bestbuy in its heyday) is currently running commercials targeting older audience and clearly co-financed by Microsoft

So is the ARD, desguised as "news".

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by hulitu » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

hu3 wrote: post #2

Initial release date: July 29, 2015 That's over 10 years of support. Not bad

> That's over 10 years of support. Not bad

This reminds of "Windows is a single platform" rant from some 20 years ago.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by SpecialistK » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 11:35 PM UTC

If your PC actually can't run Windows 11 (older than Nehalem/Bulldozer) then you should:

* fresh install 10 21H2 LTSC IoT using "methods" - this will keep receiving Windows patches until 2032 (although 3rd party software may end support sooner)

or

* move to a supported Linux distro (Debian 13 with XFCE would be a safe bet)

or

* buy a new computer because 15 years is pretty old for a PC

If your PC can run Windows 11, but Microsoft don't support it (1st-7th gen Intel or AMD FX-Zen 1) then use 11 24H2 LTSC IoT.

If your PC does support Windows 11 but you're finally sick of Microsoft's bullpoop... 11 24H2 LTSC IoT.

Basically use 21H2 LTSC for old machines, and 24H2 LTSC for new machines. I honestly believe MS makes this version available (and so easy to activate) just to keep HN-types happy. Far less crap, still get security updates, and you'll probably reinstall in a few years once software support gets in the way or a new Windows release adds features you want (but won't be pushed because LTSC.) It actually makes Windows acceptable to use and acts like versions before 10 (it's one branch which gets patched, not upgrades every 6 months)

Of course moving to a better platform (Linux or BSD) would be preferred, but sometimes we still need to use Windows...

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by lordkrandel » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 7:06 AM UTC

Oh no! I will have to switch from Archlinux to NixOS now! ... no... wait...

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by akimbostrawman » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 11:33 AM UTC

Woodi wrote: post #27

akimbostrawman wrote: post #10

https://endof10.org/

I like Linux & Co and do not like Windows accounts etc but "MS wants you buy new computer" is anti slogan. We need new hardware ASAP! ' Problem is: hardware we want probably do not exists yet :) RowHammer ? Are new Intel cpu arch resistant to speculations or how better it is then HT? "Android GPU speculations" from todays news ? That MS probably wants to bake two tings at once - some security and a lot of slavery - i…

It's far more likely a PC gets physically stolen than rowhammer, spectre or any other advanced hardware specific exploit being used.

Linux is already much more secure than Windows even on insecure hardware by not encouraging downloading proprietary unverified executables from google which on top is infested with malwaretising or even comes preinstalled with them. That is how 99% of malware actually does damage.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by The_President » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #36

janwl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A professional who didn’t use an ad blocker?

A friend of mine's wife works in marketing and literally needs to run without an Ad Blocker for work. When I setup PiHole for them, had to manually set the DNS on her work computer to not block ads.

Yeah in our case this person is a professional in another industry and uses her device as an office machine... Adblockers are just not a thing they think about.