I think we're gonna see a dramatic rise in Linux systems in the coming years if Microsoft keeps this course. Nvidia have started upping their Linux driver game as well so it's gonna be a breeze to pick up decent second hand systems and reselling them with a proper OS that'll take us to the end of the world in 24 years.

Either way, you're net positive.

Why would you scratch a melon? How would you even know if it's itchy???

Can you scratch pumpkins too?

Im sure Win10 will get unofficial patching etc for some time yet

You make it sound like an older gaming rig wasn't powerful enough to run win 11. It's not about the older hardware being too weak, it's about enforcing their TPM bullshit with which they aim to gradually create an apple style walled garden where they control what you can do with your machine.

FTFY

New Shitty “Os”*

*(Legal Disclaimer “Os” is actually malware)

idk, sounds like an ad for Linux to me

I dunno, I've got a laptop who's CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it...

This is the first time they've intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it's blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

Shocked face

Its almost as if Microsoft makes money from new hardware

You can, install it and uninstall it once again. Repeat until you're sated.

It also has the benefit of inertia. Everyone knows Microsoft from either school or marketing. They are the standard and anyone else has to fight decades of standards. It also helps that they historically created the best tools for easily managing fleets on machines. Now days they are pushing everyone to Azure but before they had the best tools to build your business on. It was so convenient to have Windows server with all the server stuff like AD, SQL and IIS. They basically were they only well known option until the last 5-10 years.

PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I've been worried for a bit the direction they're going with that... Everything they're doing now is Azure and they're pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

Why upgrade hardware that still does all you need?

looks at self

How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?

Because MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it's not already a huge target?

One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.

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