I for one am enjoying my last few months of Windows 10, stable, responsive, no surprise updates at last.

john01dav 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If you want stable, responsive, and old, use Debian, possibly with XFCE. Then, you have patches for security issues too.

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Windows 10 is still supported until 2032 if you use LTSC

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userbinator 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Even without MS' support it'll still work fine.

In fact, it's arguably better that way.

The old saying about known unknowns vs. unknown unknowns comes to mind.

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Zetaphor 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The support you're paying for is security updates against 0-day attacks. Once you stop receiving those then your machine becomes open season for botnets

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userbinator 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That is pure FUD. Machines behind a firewall are not going to be affected at all.

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artificialLimbs an hour ago | parent [-]

As long as you don’t run that one file.

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agadius an hour ago | parent [-]

Microsoft security patches doesn’t protect you from doing that. Unsupported Win 10 behind firewall is perfectly fine, as long as you use an updated browser

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tech234a 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

Even that won't last forever. Notably, Edge is only guaranteeing updates until October 2028 [1], coinciding with the end of its 3-year ESU period. Previously, Chromium ended support for Windows 7 at the end of its ESU period (which was also the end of support for Windows 8.1) [2]. However, Firefox continues to support Windows 7/8.1 by providing security updates for an older ESR version of Firefox 115; they appear to be re-evaluating whether to continue support every 6 months, currently set to end in March 2026.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...

[2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/185534985/sunsettin...

[3]: https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr

	▲	userbinator 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have patched Firefox 115 to run on XP, so no doubt it would be much easier to continue doing it for something as new as Win10.

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lawn 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I for one been enjoying Linux for years. No surprise updates or AI slop forced down my throat.