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The Death of Windows 10

Spend a few bucks on Stardock Start11 and make the UI look like Win-7, Win-10 or whatever you prefer.
 
I finally broke down, gritted my teeth, and bought a new-to-me Thinkpad L15 with Win11Pro. It arrived today.
I plugged it in, but haven't had the nerve to actually fire it up yet. Maybe tomorrow...

Still typing on my aged, well-worn, and much beloved T430/Win10Pro at the moment... :facepalm:
 
I've done a migration of Win 10 Enterprise to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC. Supposedly, I will recieve security updates until 2032. I've seen very little meniton of this option here or elsewhere. I didn't even have to do a fresh install. I recommend a little research for those of you happy with Win 10 as it is. There will be no new "features" provided but as long as I get security patches, I'll be perfectly happy.
 
Ifrit said:
... making it inoperable and breaking any system to its structure.
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Utterly agree it defies the fundamental design principle of what an OS should be, but it is not unique to Microsoft. My Android smartphone keeps changing basic functionality for crap I never had an issue with, it's like they keep us as test lemmings all the time. And I resent that.
 
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Just for all of your reference... As I just wrote here,

Finally, as of today, October 1 2025 Japan Time, Microsoft officially and generally released Windows 11 25H2.
https://www.windowscentral.com/micr...wnload-all-28-languages-here-for-x64-or-arm64

I quickly downloaded the .iso x64 installer of Windows 11 Pro 25H2 Japanese language:
26200.6584.250915-1905.25h2_ge_release_svc_refresh_CLIENT_CONSUMER_x64FRE_ja-jp.iso (7.12 GB)

and I could confirm the command "setup.exe /product server" is still supported for preservative-upgrade-installation (preserving/keeping all the applications and files) in "officially unsupported" outdated PCs, avoiding/bypassing all of the TPM-check, CPU-check, MEM-check, SecureBoot-check, etc.

Edit:
As just shared here,,,
It has been confirmed that the "Insider Preview Windows 25H2 x64 26200.6584 installer .iso" (ref. #1) and the today's "Official General Windows 25H2 x64 26200.6584 installer.iso" (ref. #40) are exactly the same with each other, as I (we) expected.
WS1007.JPG
 
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Microsoft imposed a deadline of 14 October. I beat it - now have Linux Mint Cinnamon on both my laptops. I've enjoyed the learning, and even created a shortcut to select limit charging. One drawback is that it only works on x86/64 CPUs. (I tried Ubuntu 25.04 from USB, but could not get Chrome to work.)

It is noticeably faster than Windows 10; file transfers around 2 to 3x quicker.

My main laptop had a sound problem which I assumed was hardware, but it is fine with Linux. No need to replace yet. SXFI Amp is plug-n-play.
 
My two old Win10 machines'll get migrated to a Linux graphical OS (probably a Mint morph) soon... anon.
Got a couple of ancient Thinkpads here running Linux Mint and they're snazzy (given how ancient they are... and I do mean ancient).


(here's one of them... even this photo's old; COVID-era ;))

Much backing up and (more to the point) moving around of files to do first. I am a digital pack rat as much as I am an analog pack rat. :facepalm:
 
It feels like planned obsolescence from Microsoft.
However, I did replace my 10 year old Windows 10 PC with a new Windows 11 PC.
 
Jokke said:
It feels like planned obsolescence from Microsoft.
However, I did replace my 10 year old Windows 10 PC with a new Windows 11 PC.
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Do you mean you purchased a new Windows 11 PC as a replacement for old Windows 10 PC, right?

Only if you would like to do so, you can just upgrade (free, zero cost!) Windows 10 to Windows 11 25H2 even on officially-unsupported outdated PC avoiding/bypassing all of the CPU-check, TPM-check, MEM-check, SecureBoot-check, etc., with all the application and file/data preserved, as I have been sharing on this specific thread.
 
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Bruce Morgen said:
Can the popular Linux distros read existing NTFS drives?
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Read = yes, write = yes, at least my Mint 22.1 - but its latest successor 22.2 warns of problems (see documentation).
The only problem I encounter: if you have many Bitlocker drives, they show up, but are really accessible only after clicking them in the list.
 
mhardy6647 said:
No new "features" would be a massively valuable feature in and of itself! :)
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The last Doz feature I thought was really valuable was the inclusion of the mouse right click options that mostly came about IIRC with Win 98.
Since then the OS has just become increasingly messy.
For my day to day computing I've dual booted a Linux desktop since about 1998, only booting Doz for a couple apps I just can't get to run on Linux.
 
Soniclife said:
Was that a pay option in the US?
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There still may be a paid option. The Cnet article describes three options. I did the one that required you to do a full account backup to Onedrive. After doing so, the ESU enrollment option was offered under Settings>Windows Update
 
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RickS said:
It is now a slower death…

https://www.cnet.com/tech/cant-run-windows-11-heres-what-you-should-do-next/

I enrolled my office desktop for Extended Security Updates recently. Good for another year now.
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So M$ is going to milk users at least once more for $30. What a bunch of whores.

RickS said:
There still may be a paid option. The Cnet article describes three options. I did the one that required you to do a full account backup to Onedrive. After doing so, the ESU enrollment option was offered under Settings>Windows Update
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HUH, whats the deal with that, What do they need my info for, I upload all of GOD knows what off my computer to their cloud to get ESU? SCARY :mad:
 
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