Windows team is desperate to remain relevant.
I suspect most Microsoft revenue these days comes from Azure and the cloud version of Office. Windows OS is pretty much irrelevant other than as a platform to distribute other products.
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How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.
There's always going to be vulnerabilities, that's why they're ending support. They don't want to spend time updating an OS they don't want people using.
Windows 10 is probably fairly secure... today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won't get the update. If there's a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you'll be stuck on legacy security settings.
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Cool. Pop_OS is working quite well over here.
It's never been a better time to convert to Linux. The best part is that if one distro turns to shit you can just move over to another.
If you absolutely need to use Windows11, use Tiny11. But for the great majority of users, Zorin/Ubuntu/Mint or Bazzite are best pick
Only if you have hardware that can handle it.
Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.
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