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Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15988326

Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10, and all editions will remain in support with monthly security update releases through that date. Existing LTSC releases will continue to receive updates beyond that date based on their specific lifecycles.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro

edboythinks ,

I've got money on Microsoft putting a dead man switch in the last win10 update

CaptKoala ,

I'm picturing in my mind, that they'll add an overlay that takes up your whole screen on login after October '25 that'll just say "Upgrade to Windows 11 now!" That you can't close.

CaptKoala ,

Lucky I already upgraded OS to not include any Micro$hit.

Boozilla ,
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Assuming I still have my current job at that time, this is really going to suck for me. I have an old virtual PC runnning Windows 10 that I use once in a while to maintain some shitty old software. It was a giant PITA setting it up. I regularly back it up because of that.

Hopefully I can just continue using it, but I'll need to disconnect it from the internet somehow. Will still need some limited LAN access. I guess it will require some strict firewall rules. I know just enough about networking to muddle through...maybe.

cyberpunk007 ,

Put it on its own vlan behind a firewall and permit only what is required.

pirrrrrrrr ,

Yeah... I'm not gonna worry about it until maybe September next year.

Duamerthrax ,

September, the year after... maybe.

Do I trust hackers or Microsoft less with my gaming partition?

HexesofVexes ,

At this point, I can use Linux for most things except older fangames, reliable printing (seriously, cups is pain), and some mmorpgs.

Once I get a month without the university shitting its pants and changing policy overnight, I'll eat the learning curve and switch (actually learn to troubleshoot wine rather than relying on searches).

When I move, thinking mint with cinnamon because I love that desktop.

gamermanh ,
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Being serious: what MMORPG or old game isn't able to run on Proton or Wine by now?

Literally everything I've tossed at Linux Mint and told "use proton 9" has just worked? Currently playing the most heavily modded FNV run I've ever done while also experiencing actually 0 crashes for the first time and I'm not actually 100% sure how that's happening?

I've been shocked with Linux's game capabilities through proton 9 at this point and would love to hear of a use case where it's not working just to see if I could get it working for the fun of it if I get some time

Classy ,

cups is pain

It's hilarious because it was FAR easier for me to get printing going on my Linux machine than with W10. It's an old printer, 1320n from HP, maybe 15 years old, but the damn thing is amazing for document printing, and I had to hunt for drivers and do a lot of compatibility shit to get my computer to recognize it. Arch (EndeavourOS) seemed to just natively recognize the printer and gave me zero fuss. When I was using Ubuntu, I used CUPS and it wasn't terrible. I liked it better than driver fishing, for sure.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I have had pretty much no problems printing, probably because I got a good printer (Brother laser printer). It just works every time.

Bonesince1997 ,

I've heard you can pay to continue updates on Win10 for three years I believe it was.

catloaf ,

Yeah but who is going to do that outside business customers with strict requirements? Raise your hand if you ever even paid for a Windows license in the first place (other than one that came with the PC).

AmbroisindeMontaigu ,

The period after MS stopped messing with it and before software stopped supporting it was the nicest time to use Windows 7, I expect it to be the same for Windows 10.

cosmicrookie ,
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Linux Mint FTW!
Changed partly because of this and partly because of all the ads, bloatware, spyware etc etc

homesweethomeMrL ,

Micro$quash makes 80 BEELYUN dollars a year in pure unadulterated profit, but it can’t keep security updates coming.

Well. I mean, they can, hahaha . . .ahh but they’re not going to.

treefrog ,

I guess that's when I switch my laptop over to Linux. Which is back how it was before I switched it to Windows for school.

My PC is already Linux.

_sideffect ,

Fu win11 with its abundance of spyware and ai bs

xhieron ,
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Windows 10 LTSC 2021 ends support in 2027 (although it doesn't matter quite as much). And it's likely that the Win 11 LTSC later this year will necessarily be free from much of 11's bullshit. Linux is still the right call, but for those of us who need to run a Windows machine for whatever reason, there are alternatives, so, you know... yarr.

NarrativeBear ,

But I don't want to buy all new hardware! Thought MS was sustainable. Instead MS is BS.

Thorry84 ,

Always has been.

And I've been using Microsoft since my first computer in 1984. Recently got DOS 2.0 with hacked FAT16 running on my first computer, would have blown my mind back then.

snownyte ,
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Unless you're on Enterprise/Education - 2027

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