End of Support: Windows 10 - What to do

The end is near...well for Windows 10 anyway, we are about 18 months out, which is not a lot of time left to decide what to do, so this video is meant to give you five (5) options when your Windows 10 Home, Pro or Enterprise goes End of Support in October of 2025.

Why didn't you recommend MacOS?: That would still require new hardware and in addition it would mean i some cases having to 1) transfer licenses from Windows to MacOS, or re-purchaing commercial software for MacOS. Kind of an expensive path.

End of Support means: No Security Patches, No Updates or Enhancements, and No Support

Thumbnail AI Generated: Is a broken window in a post apocalyptic world, hopefully you planned better than that, and it a smooth transition for you.

Chaptters
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Windows !0 End Date
02:07 - Option 1: Do Nothing, Continue to Run Windows 10
03:02 - Option 2: Extended Security Update (ESU)
05:08 - Option 3: Move to WIndows 11
05:26 - Windows 11 Minimium System Requirements
08:53 - Disabling Windows 11 Checks
10:33 - Option 4: Chrome OS Flex
12:03 - Option 5: Linux
13:19 - WINE List
14:22 - Summary
15:47 - Final Thoughts - Windlows 12

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[jackwaycombe]

Imho, we need legislation to decree that when MS (or anyone else) abandon an OS, it immediately becomes open source. Digital life - especially business - has become too fundamentally important to be monopolised by corporations.

[TheAltair]

They said 10 will be last version of Windows. Well it will be the last for me. Switched to Linux and Mac when they released 11

[peterbryant]

Windows has become an ongoing pain . All I want is a system that works not endless bells and whistles which I neither want or need.

[paulsmodels]

My PC in the living room still runs Windows 7 just perfectly. I run Windows 10 on all the other PCs in our house (3 more) and they all do fine. My old Dell laptop runs W7 just fine. I'm not concerned about it.

[acreguy]

And some judge in the US ruled that MS *doesn't* have a monopoly. Millions of perfectly running Windows 10 machines are going to be trashed. Just because MS says the life span of their OS is 10 years doesn't mean it doesn't run programs anymore. It really means, after 10 years, a new revenue stream must be triggered for MS. Well done, MS. Linux is looking really good at this point.

[KCKingcollin]

Microsoft is crazy for ending support this early, 10 still has 68% about 2.5 times 11, I hope we get more people on Linux thanks to this clown act, Microsoft doesn't deserve anyone's support in any way at this point

[stainlesssteellemming]

Why is everyone dissing 10-year old PCs? Seriously, my main desktop at home is 14 years old. When I bought it, I got the biggest machine I could spec out, and it's never really fallen short of my needs for it.

And I'm not someone who lives in Office.

My machine currently runs Windows 10 (actually it's dual booted with Ubuntu on the other drive), but it also hosts VMs running every Windows version since '95. I'm not a big PC gamer, I'm a software engineer - been working with M$ since PC-DOS v1.0 (no, that's not a typo. My first PC had the letters IBM on the front).

I *will* retire this PC in a couple of years, as a last-time buy for when I enter retirement - but only because I'll still be able to cash flow something decent (say 2 CPU, 64C/128T, 128GB RAM, whatever NVIDIA's top board is at the time and plenty of SATA ports for storage expansion). That'll let me play with hobby stuff, like AI (hence the graphics board).

Even at the office, my main desktop is >10 years old. But then it's never seen Windows as I do systems development.

Outside of gaming and power consumption for portables, CPUs really haven't seen a lot of growth in speed etc over the last 10 to 15 years. Just added cores and their ability to manage larger amounts of RAM, and to get really hot.

[adjusted-bunny]

The phasing-out of Windows7 was what brought me to Linux. I never looked back.

[Evilatem]

Microsoft requiring those extras for Windows 11 is the end of their monopoly.
Companies and countries have calculated that it's cheaper to switch tot Linux and pay to retrain staff then to buy all new computers and Windows 11 for each system. Germany is switching 50, 000 computers and China is switching 50 MILLION computers over to Linux. Nearly all websites and servers run Linux so it's making more sense to train everyone on it.

[sz-me]

Thank you for summarizing all my talking points to upgrade our machines to my higher ups. I'm just gonna forward them your video and call it a day. You are fantastic!

[mozofoz]

Can they move this forward ? I'm sick to death of trying to get all my settings back to where they were after all these "updates". I'm a streamer and every update messed my settings up, I still haven't been able to get my microphone back to how it sounded before the last update.

[ilovemonkeyos]

Finally, Windows Updates will stop restarting my PC every week without my consent. Lol.

[matthewfusaro]

Strange how Windows 10 went from the "last version of windows", meaning it would be upgraded indefinitely to it ending in just over a year from now. Why the change? Sounds like pure corporate greed to me.

[YuasBirds]

I meet all of the hardware requirements by a mile for 11 (7800x3d, 64gb ram, 7900xt), I won't be upgrading. When support ends next year, I'm swapping straight to Linux, I'm willing to bet the software support for popular Linux distributions (mint would be my first choice) will increase 10 fold with the influx of new users by then.

[beastiebunny]

Great information. I also love the fact that he's using the HAL 9000 screen saver on his background monitor.

[robchr]

Remember when M$ said 10 would be the last version of Windows?

[pixelpusher]

We have 24 systems in house and we don’t have the ability to do the 11 compatible chip upgrade. So, we’ve tested Ubuntu 22.04 since last fall and we’re prepared to make the switch this May. Everyone that has been running Ubuntu loves it.

[robertbiron]

My solution is and I have already switched to Linux Mint and it works great, I use it for everything and love it.

[waltrautengels]

By the way: Nearly 70% of all machines are still running Windows 10.

Only lil over 23% are running Windows 11.

We'll see if M$ is really so brave to cut off all these machines.

The adoptionrate of Win 11 is so low, bc of the stupid hardware restrictions and bc they forced it not onto all the machines like they did with win 10.

Atm I tend to the option this whole situation will become the greatest self-own in the history of M$!

[MnRProdMariolaur]

The best option is Linux, when there was no more support for Windows 7 I jump to Linux Mint.