lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 19 hours agoCan’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solutionwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down17
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minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·15 hours agoI just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on. As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don’t let personal preference put you at risk.
minus-squarelaurelraven@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoBecause MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it’s not already a huge target?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoCompared to not getting any patches at all? That doesn’t seem like a good justification for staying on something EOL.
minus-squareFlocklesscrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agolooks at self How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
minus-squarenothingcorporate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoOne more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·12 hours agoThey said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 hours agoI hope you are joking…
I just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on.
As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don’t let personal preference put you at risk.
I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
Because MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it’s not already a huge target?
Compared to not getting any patches at all? That doesn’t seem like a good justification for staying on something EOL.
looks at self
How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
They said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
I hope you are joking…