Sorry I once again forgot to ping you to this thread. My goal was largely to let people know that there are ways to cope with the end of service of Windows 10 next year. As with any thread relating to Windows it went sideways almost immediately with mostly people venting about Microsoft, Bill Gates, Linux, and everything but how to cope with Windows 10’s impending demise.
No worries, I happened to be online and saw it pretty early. :-)
> ... it went sideways almost immediately with mostly people venting about Microsoft, Bill Gates, Linux, and everything but how to cope with Windows 10’s impending demise.
Yeah, that's unfortunately pretty common. OTOH, Win10 isn't actually dying, per se, it'll keep running, just like Win7 (and even older releases), but it will get increasingly risky to use on the internet due to lack of updates.
I have a VM of Win7 that I keep around to run some legacy apps that won't run on Win10, but I only run them locally, I don't use that VM for anything else. Which is a shame in a way, because IMO Win7's UI was the best Microsoft ever produced, and it's a joy to work on compared to the newer ones. Oh well.
Fortunately daniel1212 posted some interesting links to 3rd party utilities that may ease the pain of Win11 (and Win10). My company is switching to Win11 because we have to, and I expect to hear complaints from the users, so it'll be handy to have some useful answers pre-vetted.