Upgrading to Windows 11

[Murphy]

I have 2 machines that would be scrap otherwise. I'll carry on with win 10 (as I do not really like win 11)until the very end.

I'll carry on with it forever until MS take a drastic change of course, i imagine many people will as there's an estimated 25-30 million PCs that can't run Windows 11 so i think a good percentage of those either can't or wont buy a new PC.

If MS don't extend Windows 10 support i can see it becoming the world biggest bot farm.

 

[marc2003]

If MS don't extend Windows 10 support i can see it becoming the world biggest bot farm.

People could be very naughty and grab IOT enterprise LTSC which gets 10 years of security updates. The windows 10 variant is from 2022 but that means end of life in 2032 as opposed to next year.

 

[ED209]

People could be very naughty and grab IOT enterprise LTSC which gets 10 years of security updates. The windows 10 variant is from 2022 but that means end of life in 2032 as opposed to next year.

I would be using this if I could get a license for it.

 

[mattyfez]

I just upgraded from an i7 6700k for this same issue given end of support for Windows 10 in October 2025. There are methods to bypass it but I heard that Windows complications could arise with updates further down the line for these CPUs.

My old machine is a 6600k... Still perfectly good for a secondary pc in the living room for media and casual gaming.

Im just gonna keep it until security updates stop for win 10..

Then I'll probably bung Linux mint or Ubuntu on it and carry on as normal... They are so easy to use these days and a lot of games are now well supported via steam on Linux.

My more powerful pc is running win11 but I've no love for the OS any more. M$ Can kiss my butt!