Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)

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[-] zhunk@beehaw.org 22 points 7 months ago

"Security as a Service"

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 27 points 7 months ago

At that point, the OS will be 10 years old, and was a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or later. It's plausible to not have paid a cent for your OS for 15+ years by 2025.

If you've bought a new computer with Windows since 2021, you'll have v11 anyway and won't be affected.

Frankly I have to hand it to Microsoft - they've been generous with OS support. The pessimist/pragmatist part of me puts it down to upgrading old OS's to combat their reputation as being the cause of worms/viruses going mental on the Internet over the past decade or so. So it isn't like they haven't had ulterior motives.

But yeah, I can't really fault them for this one.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Microsoft outdoes every other (paid) OS including Chrome, Android*, iOS, and Mac in terms of their longterm support, as far as I am concerned.

But Win10 is still the end of the line for me, I suspect. All the MS Account stuff deeply integrated into 11 is a bridge too far.

*(which is free, but also doesn't get properly supported on older devices)

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Welcome to Linux.

[-] CylustheVirus@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Proton has done wonders I hear. Wonder how bad it'll be dealing with my 3080.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Lots of factors in different distros. nVidia hosts its own Open/SUSE and Fedora repo so from my experience SUSE /OpenSUSE handle nVidia cards well. But I did see a specific distro setup for gaming with all the tweaks, I forget the name right now, might be this one https://news.itsfoss.com/bazzite/