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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them::Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7.

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't upgrade to Windows 11 (not that I'd want to considering all their enshittification), so they're leaving me with an unsecured OS. I survive on £160 a month so, no, I won't be paying for fucking security updates, instead I'll be switching to Linux and literally never considering using Windows again.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's also not reasonable to expect updates forever. No matter what, support for software always stops at some point, and 10 years of support is pretty reasonable for consumer products. Not great, but also not terrible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But consider that windows is a paid product, and its competition, linux, is both free and with much much longer support for old hardware, not to mention never having "sequels" in this way. I feel like windows doesn't have much excuse compared to this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Windows 11, while you can work around it, specifically requests tpm, which definitively is not from 1999..

    Also, windows has its own endless list of driver issues, hardware does not always "just work" on windows, on the other hand, it also often "just works" on linux. It depends, of course, but I never had to install a sketchy driver for my PS3 controller on linux (it's in the kernel), but I had to on windows. Not to mention printers.

    A bunch of software is also only or primarily for Linux, though that depends of course on your field and what you need. I've seen plenty of software that I needed that did not have a proper (or as good) windows alternative.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I mean, TPM 2.0 is already 4 years old so were not really talking about MS requiring cutting-edge tech when they stop supporting Win10 in two years.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    My computer parts were like 8+ years old when I replaced them. And I can afford to do so, not everyone can.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    But getting a 6 year old used laptop by the time its necessary is fortunately pretty cheap. And for consumers there's honestly very few that need to use windows, so there's always Linux distros as an alternative.

    I get that it's not a good move for consumers, I'm not disagreeing with that. But it's just also so very far from the catastrophe that so many seem to insist it is. It's honestly just a mild inconvenience, and the coverage it's getting is IMO completely out of proportion to the problem.

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