FreeITstafford
Well-Known Forumite
Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10 in exactly 4 years.
When our project first started we'd been told (by Microsoft themselves) that Windows 10 would be the last ever Windows, and they'd simply update it for ever more.
We'd been promising our recipients that they'd be good for licensing for as long as the life of their PC. Great, because we can make (pretty much) anything run on Windows 10.
Then, bombshell. We're told about Windows 11, and its OTT hardware requirements, and overnight our pledge completely changed from "the life of the PC" to "errmmm.. you've actually only got 4 years and this kit will be compromised because there will be no more security updates". Windows 11 simply wouldn't run on 99% of the donations we get, and it will savagely increase the amount of stuff going to e-waste.
We're already looking at alternatives. We're really familiar with Ubuntu, but not everybody is.
My question is this, what will the average home user be doing in 4 years time?
-Continuing using Windows 10 and take the chance that security vulnerabilities will no longer be fixed
-Buying new kit that can run Windows 11
-Using open-source alternatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc?
When our project first started we'd been told (by Microsoft themselves) that Windows 10 would be the last ever Windows, and they'd simply update it for ever more.
We'd been promising our recipients that they'd be good for licensing for as long as the life of their PC. Great, because we can make (pretty much) anything run on Windows 10.
Then, bombshell. We're told about Windows 11, and its OTT hardware requirements, and overnight our pledge completely changed from "the life of the PC" to "errmmm.. you've actually only got 4 years and this kit will be compromised because there will be no more security updates". Windows 11 simply wouldn't run on 99% of the donations we get, and it will savagely increase the amount of stuff going to e-waste.
We're already looking at alternatives. We're really familiar with Ubuntu, but not everybody is.
My question is this, what will the average home user be doing in 4 years time?
-Continuing using Windows 10 and take the chance that security vulnerabilities will no longer be fixed
-Buying new kit that can run Windows 11
-Using open-source alternatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc?