Isaac
Lifelong Learner
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Windows 10 support ended 10/14/2025 and Windows 11 was made to trash millions of computers, as most users don't need the fancy hardware features Windows 11 demands to install.
Luckily for anyone who just wants email, web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, access apps, instead of ditching your computer, you can continue using it "as is" until its wheels fall off. Just make sure you don't accidentally click on something that causes Win11 to be installed.
Another option is to backup your personal files, ditch Windows, and go with one of the many free Linux versions. Pro versions of Windows can have lots of bits of Linux lurking in it anyway, so you can go the whole way and ditch Windows completely.
It's kind of like everyone used to think you had to have a landline, then mobiles came along and had to have a keypad, then iPhones came along...Could phone numbers and Windows be next on the chopping block?
I've continued using Windows 10 on my primary laptop and have no intention of doing anything different with it until the laptop itself fails
Every once in a while I get popups trying to force me, I get rid of them pronto.
The OS's have become increasingly annoying and more apple-like over time, so I put them off until I have no choice. Probably will be when I next buy a laptop I may have no choice at that point
I use no AV system at all, (other than all the windows built in stuff), AV systems behave more like a virus than a virus does, never regretted it