Just wait until Windows 11 Updates become a thing.
Meanwhile, techniques for avoiding the forced Win10 Updates are making the rounds....
sticking with w7.
older pc’s can’t handle the OS footprint and cpu requirements of w10.
My machine is too old for Win 11. May be good for me that I stay in the Win 10 world (for awhile).
** Just wait until Windows 11 Updates become a thing. **
I’ve already has a spit load of cumulative updates to widows 11 since October.
Oh, joy.
Seems now that I've spent half my life running around my Engineering Department the day after an update getting the workstations back up.
But it's actually "only" thirty years. (Yeah, I'm old...)
Okay. What new and improved wet dream do I get to work around this time? Or, since I'm retired and don't play CAD much anymore, should I just grab that Ubuntu disk and see if I can pretend expertise (/jk) at that now?
Seriously guys, I'm getting too old for this stuff.
Maybe I'll just turn the whole thing over to our 5yo twin great-grand daughters. They have absolutely mastered every cellphone/tablet/electronic device they've seen since they started walking.
Scary little girls.
“the choice is to take ‘em or keep using something that’s not nearly as secure (Win7, even WinXP).”
I’ve still got Win7 on one machine, and haven’t gotten a virus, or even an attempted infection on it in probably 5 years. It may be less secure, but it’s also seemingly not a high priority target. What are you going to do with a bunch of obsolete machines on your bot net that can’t even run most modern web browsers?
Just the other day I learned that shiny new Debian Linux will run on my G5 Mac.