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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be a remote exploit or it might not. An OS is not just a program that runs in the background, if it is critically important.

These kind of exploiters don't tend to attack you in particular, they have botnets scanning the web for any compromised machine.

Running windows 10 is fine today, might not be fine after EOL. It is irresponsible to shrug it off and not even consider the alternatives out there, including windows 11.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's where the "analysis" part of "cost-benefit analysis" comes in and it doesn't make sense to generalize like you seem to want to.

Is it really that much more responsible to run Windows 11? You seem to have a LOT of faith in Microsoft to keep you safe. There's plenty of reasons to not switch to Windows 11.

I also use Linux on some machines. But I can also see why there are reasons why one distro or another, or even Linux in general, may not be the right call for some people.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I use Linux exclusively but I don't think it's relevant to the discussion.

I would rather use windows 11 than any other EOL version of windows. I loved windows XP when it came out, wouldn't dare to use it today.