windows 10 support ending soon?

[firewaark]

just logged onto my account and noticed a blurb popping up saying windows 10 support will be ending soon May 2025, and that afterwords i will have 1 year to upgrade to windows 11 otherwise my license could be pulled, this is mildly upsetting to me as this is the same song and dance they pulled with minecraft, a game which i had growing up but no longer enjoy. im wondering if anyone else has gotten this notification and their thoughts on it?

[Electric Cupcake]

Between Steam Runtime, Proton, Bottles and DXVK, Windows is extraneous and obsolete.

[Zefar]

Publicado originalmente por Electric Cupcake:

Windows 11 is hot garbo. There's workarounds for most of the worst BS, but it's not worth it anymore.

When 10 support ends, it's time for linux full time.

Uh huh, hot garbo?

So I've been using Win11 for several months now.
I only made some changes in the start and after that it's just been smooth sailing.

Don't see what's so bad about it. Quite a lot of people said the same thing about Win10 during last year while the discussion of Win7 support being removed from Steam.
I was on that Os before and it was pretty much the same.

Other than Startmenu on Win10 being better but I rarely use it so it doesn't matter.

[Iron Knights]

MS will officially stop supporting Win 10 in 2025. But this is legal speak. There are updates out there for Win 7 still, if you know where to find them & get them.
MS is releasing Responsibility for Win 10 in 2025. They may release official updates years after.
As for who will force you to switch OS sooner, rather than later ? Make better software store choices, like GOG.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por Crashed:

Publicado originalmente por AyaSensei067:

There's also Windows 10 LTSC, which has security updates until 2032 (IoT version)

LTSC 2022 is only a 5 year support version. 2024 will go back to a 10 year support cycle.

Win10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 is supported until 2032.

Yea I mean if folks seriously want to stay on Win10, this is the best option. key or no key, it doesn't really matter, you never needed a key at any point what so ever to fully 100% use Win10 or 11.

Honestly I don't see people gripes with Win11; you can tweak it however you want, just like 10. Regardless of how people feel, even Win10 is a big pile of turds until its highly tweaked, especially for Gaming.

These folks that think you going to install your OS and be up and running on Steam and Twitch fully gaming in an hour or so are living is some kind of retarded bubble; that's not how it works, and it's never worked like that. You must install tons of stuff and tweak the OS.

MS still can not be relied on for drivers, you must download & install those yourself.

Going from a clean install of Win10 to everything installed and tweaked takes a few hours.

And don't give me this "Just go over to Linux BS" because most of you know even less about Linux so your time to get that up and going and running well with Steam and Proton and everything working good would take even longer.

[Crashed]

Actually LTSC 2021 is a 5-year release:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/whats-new-windows-10-2021

ⓘ Important

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 has a 5 year lifecycle. (IoT Enterprise LTSC continues to have a 10 year lifecycle). Thus, the LTSC 2021 release is not a direct replacement for LTSC 2019, which has a 10 year lifecycle.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por Crashed:

Actually LTSC 2021 is a 5-year release:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/whats-new-windows-10-2021

ⓘ Important

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 has a 5 year lifecycle. (IoT Enterprise LTSC continues to have a 10 year lifecycle). Thus, the LTSC 2021 release is not a direct replacement for LTSC 2019, which has a 10 year lifecycle.

Ok from what I had found elsewhere it appeared all the LTSC was good til 2032. But I suppose that makes sense. Not like you'd want to stay on an OS from before 2023-2024. So yea LTSC 2024 ISO then

[Crashed]

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Publicado originalmente por Crashed:

Actually LTSC 2021 is a 5-year release:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/whats-new-windows-10-2021

Ok from what I had found elsewhere it appeared all the LTSC was good til 2032. But I suppose that makes sense. Not like you'd want to stay on an OS from before 2023-2024. So yea LTSC 2024 ISO then

LTSC 2024 is Windows 11 by the way. Perhaps LTSC 2021 was intended to be a stopgap.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por Crashed:

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Ok from what I had found elsewhere it appeared all the LTSC was good til 2032. But I suppose that makes sense. Not like you'd want to stay on an OS from before 2023-2024. So yea LTSC 2024 ISO then

LTSC 2024 is Windows 11 by the way. Perhaps LTSC 2021 was intended to be a stopgap.

Ok the latest Win10 I see is LTSC 21H2
So how long is that good for?

I already have regular Win10 64bit Enterprise; that's good til Jan 2028

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

Publicado originalmente por Zefar:

Publicado originalmente por Electric Cupcake:

Windows 11 is hot garbo. There's workarounds for most of the worst BS, but it's not worth it anymore.

When 10 support ends, it's time for linux full time.

Uh huh, hot garbo?

So I've been using Win11 for several months now.
I only made some changes in the start and after that it's just been smooth sailing.

Don't see what's so bad about it. Quite a lot of people said the same thing about Win10 during last year while the discussion of Win7 support being removed from Steam.
I was on that Os before and it was pretty much the same.

Other than Startmenu on Win10 being better but I rarely use it so it doesn't matter.

ikr win11 is a much more pleasent experience for me then win10