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Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by exodust »

hhh wrote: post #14
TreetopPlace wrote: post #10

I wonder if this could be classified as an environmental crime? Microsoft are forcing to e-waste a considerable percentage of the world's computing devices, and forcing new devices to be built and consumed. And for no reason other than to force people onto Windows 11. Corporations MUST be held responsible for these actions. If not at the legal level then there must be divestment of Microsoft shares by investment grou…

Microsoft isn’t forcing anything to be e-waste. They’re dropping support for what will be a 10 year old OS. You’re not forced onto Windows 11. You just won’t get support or security patches. While people should upgrade, industries will still keep w10 around for a long time, just like they do with XP, 98, NT4, etc.

> 10 year old OS

Isn't an OS only as old as its last update? Like an online map which gets updated, the map is not considered "old" if kept updated.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by hulitu »

skilled wrote: post #3

Relevant, > Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely. Microsoft will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 users, with pricing starting at $61 for the first year. > The details and pricing structure outlined in this post apply to commercial organizations only. Details will be shared at a l…

> you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely.

This sounds like paying for the bird in the bush. Only some days ago they said they still don't know how hackers accessed their systems.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by lakomen »

Give me the same taskbar as in Windows 10 and I'll switch to 11.

Otherwise I might just purge Windows and go 100% Linux.

All the Windows games are crap anyway that are coming out in the last decade.

What was the last good Windows only game I enjoyed?

Battlefield 2042, but it sucked and still does as a game. BG3 works well emulated. CP2077 not sure. Jagged alliance 3 should have no issues. (Why does my phone annoy me with always replacing have with habe?)

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by dspillett »

phillipcarter wrote: post #32
m-p-3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve... Quoted from Jerry Nixon.

That was just an employee towing the party line at a talk.

Exactly. The party line being that Win10 will be the last version of Windows.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by thomasdziedzic »

coucoualpha wrote: post #2

Microsoft will provide Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10, start at $61 for first year, $122 for second year and $244 for third year.

"only applies to commercial organizations. An announcement for individual consumer pricing will be made at a later date." - https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/04/04/Microsoft-Reveals...

I'm guessing the individual pricing might be cheaper.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by piva00 »

senectus1 wrote: post #45
pdimitar wrote: post #21

So much for the "last version of Windows we'll do" then. Seems my support for Microsoft might end up for good at October 2025. Might replace my aging 1080 Ti with an AMD card and start gaming on Linux. Seems the time has come to start evaluating.

been playing on a 3070 quite happily on linux for the last year or so, on a dual boot win11/fedora box... but after i installed fedora i never booted into win11 again! Just forked out for a 4070 ti super so i toy with some AI stuff... when it arrives I'm doing a clean fresh build. Fedora only. no windows at home anymore. While I would loved to have bought an AMD GPU, the power suck on those high end cards is an order…

> While I would loved to have bought an AMD GPU, the power suck on those high end cards is an order of magnitude more than the Nvidia

Any source for this? I highly doubt a high end AMD GPU will draw 2-3kW of power.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by delduca »

pdimitar wrote: post #21

So much for the "last version of Windows we'll do" then. Seems my support for Microsoft might end up for good at October 2025. Might replace my aging 1080 Ti with an AMD card and start gaming on Linux. Seems the time has come to start evaluating.

> start gaming on Linux

I recently did this because Windows 11 was becoming increasingly cluttered with crapware and AI. I have an NVIDIA and chose Pop!_OS.

I have a pretty large collection (https://steamosaic.com/#skhaz) and all the games I've tested work, even the recent releases.

The only issue that sometimes occurs is some games defaulting to the lowest possible resolution instead of 4K, which is my desktop resolution. And Red Dead Redemption 2 had a crash on a mission that was resolved when I switched to the experimental version of Proton.

Occasionally, I play StarCraft 1 and 2, and Diablo 2, and Lutris works perfectly for that.

Besides, I personally find Pop!_OS to be a great distro.

Re: Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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Post by Shawnj2 »

lxpz wrote: post #22
TreetopPlace wrote: post #10

I wonder if this could be classified as an environmental crime? Microsoft are forcing to e-waste a considerable percentage of the world's computing devices, and forcing new devices to be built and consumed. And for no reason other than to force people onto Windows 11. Corporations MUST be held responsible for these actions. If not at the legal level then there must be divestment of Microsoft shares by investment grou…

Yes! My desktop PC is almost 10 years old at this point and it works perfectly, I've upgraded the CPU to an i7-4790K (the best of that generation) and added some RAM (32G total) which makes it very good for most of my work and even for occasional gaming. Thankfully I don't use windows that much, but I know I can't upgrade to windows 11, so according to Microsoft I would just have to throw it away in a year or two, wh…

It’s probably possible to get it to work by patching the installer
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