Posted on 02/23/2025 9:59:57 AM PST by fireman15
It’s official: after 10 years of noble service, Windows 10 will reach its end on October 14, 2025, and what a great decade it’s been. For many users, Microsoft redeemed itself after a run of disappointing operating systems – the mere mention of Windows 8 still sends some people into a rage – but Windows 10 got it right.
That’s why the announcement of Windows 11 came as a shock. It felt too soon, too rushed – and unnecessary. Many believed that Windows 10 deserved more time to marinate. At least until it finally managed to migrate the whole Control Panel to Settings.
Jokes aside, Windows 10 made its mark with its support of legacy software, flexibility and its introduction of enhanced cloud integration in the form of OneDrive, which made accessing your files from any internet-connected PC a breeze. Its regular security updates and long-term servicing channels (LTSC) made it especially popular with businesses. (If you want to see the good stuff you will have to follow the link above.)
(Excerpt) Read more at techradar.com ...
Of course, when Windows 11 first came out in October of 2021 I tried it out on my Ryzen 5 laptop I tried it out on this in both a virtual machine which I have maintained to this day and a "Windows 11 To Go" installation on an external NVME hard drive. Both worked with no problems. Much of the hardware on the list of what is and is not approved for Windows 11 was not actually physically tested by Microsoft. Many of those who shared their observations with Microsoft were not just ignored but were treated poorly.
Ironically, my wife's laptop from the same time period which has an Intel Core 5 8650 APU and a discrete AMD Radeon GPU is on the approved hardware list for Windows 11 and gets constant nags and reminders of this. We tried Windows 11 on it again just last week. It works very poorly with it. I found a different display adapter driver that kept it from freezing up every ten minutes, but Microsoft replaced it with the original an hour later. So I found a way to prevent that but it also had problems with other drivers and harware.
And there were other problems as well. When the uprade caused awful performance I resorted to a clean install of Windows 11. Microsoft automatically encripted every partition on both drives in the computer during the install which caused other issues. I wasted days troubleshooting all of this before I realized that the best solution for this computer was a clean install of Windows 10.
There are valid reasons why I prefer Windows 10 over Windows 11. None of Microsoft's attempts to condemn our old hardware to the landfill will be successful. There are alternatives and workarounds to keep them kicking.
Even though this article is 4 months old... it makes many good observations, and I felt that it would be worth the read for those who are growing more concerned about Microsoft's declared "Windows 10 End of Life" event coming up less than 6 months away on October 14. This actually is a despicable act by Microsoft if one studies all of the ins and outs. Because of continual advances in hardware most consumers would be upgrading to Microsoft's latest offering eventually anyway without their typical strong armed approach. But they just can't seem to help their typical loutish behaivior.
Sorry Typo... it is a little less than 8 months until October 14.
Oh boy, here we go.
Go with Linux. It will keep your old computer working for years.
No. And hell no.
My wife's new computer with 11 has been nothing but trouble. I am restructuring an older with 10 for her, this week. Registry hacks will be used to block OS upgrades.
is there something wrong with W7?
My upgrading to 11 made my desktop nearly useless because I can’t print off of it.
Exactly.... Win 7 Ultimate for the score.
I have dual boot Win10/Ubuntu on a SuperMicro motherboard with i7 ninth gen, 2x2TB NVME, 32 GB RAM. It runs fine, but I have it set up as BIOS, Not UEFI, which Windows 11 wants. I want the ability to swap out hardware without causing a nervous breakdown. Windows 11 is primarily spyware, and patches to Windows 10 have made it a junior version of spyware. I want nothing to do with Cloud Drive and am annoyed that my work on Win 11 defaults to Cloud Drive whenever you want to save or retrieve anything.
Do you remember when Windows 10 was released, that Microsoft said this was the LAST version of Windows? That anything after that would be a completely different product? They reneged, but I am not surprised.
I know you have previously notified the Windows ping list about this, but thought I’d shoot this your way in case any cave dwellers still haven’t heard about it. ;)
Will Windows 11 work on my Vic-20?
I am not that computer savvy, and my desk top is old. About 8 years. So, I plan to get a laptop that will have Windows 11 on it and get a new printer. Any comments/advice would be appreciated.
Windows 11 makes it easier for the government to capture everything you do on your computer - every keystroke. So that’s the reason for the forced upgrade. And the spyware is embedded in the chips, so no software fix. That’s the reason for the forced upgrade.
Now, the good news. Microsoft will actually continue to support Windows 10 for up to 3 years at $30 /year. In 3 years (and $90 down the line) you can decide whether to buy a new computer, upgrade to Linux, or just keep using 10. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates
That said, I hear there are ways of getting around the hardware requirements that W11 imposes, but I won't be doing any of that. I'm migrating fully to Linux soon and when I do I will only use Windows O/S's when I have to for things that Linux won't do.
I just wish there was a way to install Windows Solitare on Linux. 😆😆
Of course it doesn’t actually die. It just stops getting updates. And pretty soon new software won’t support it. But if you’re happy as is you can keep it. They aren’t going to disable it.
Sure do! If they had any honesty at all, they would have said "This is the last USABLE version of Windows".
I have Windows 10 on a nine year old computer that had become a little glitchy until I figured out a fix. It is now running fine. But it’s old, will have to be replaced at some point, and cannot be upgraded to Windows 11.
I have never used the Cloud. In Windows 10, that was an option that I had to select, and I always specifically declined. I do not have anything sensitive on my computer, but I just don’t like the idea of Microsoft having everything automatically. Not that I distrust them or question that Cloud security will never be breached ... but I don’t trust them, etc.
I want to store my files locally, which I do on external hard drives that are not connected unless I am using them. These don’t do anything fancy. They are just big, dumb, thumb drives that mirror everything exactly as I have them on my desktop and don’t do any helpful rearranging or encrypting. Aside from a home fire that wiped everything out, I’m safe.
I’m not sophisticated enough to know what I don’t know, but I have seen several suggestions that Windows 11 will make full integration into the cloud automatic. Is this true? If this is the default option, is this something from which I can opt out, given that I am not a tech savvy user and don’t want to be fooling with tricky fixes?
Once my need for a corporate domain membership ends, so does my windows use.
I have linux mint that works fine for everything else.
There’s something wrong about the way Microsoft is running their OS. 10 years seems too short of a window of support on one.
BTTT
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