My computer is a bit past its sell buy date but does everything I need it to without any issues. I play retro games on it and am not really into the latest games. I have it set up exactly as I want it and it will be a bind setting up a new computer but I do have options. When I moved to Windows 10 I didn't like it as I was used to Windows 8 and I suppose Windows 11 will be the same but I will get used to it. My computer isn't on the list of those upgradable to Windows 11. What will happen in October is that support for Windows 10 will cease but the only support that is important really is the security updates. This will mean vulnerabilities in the operating system will not be fixed opening the door for crooks to get into the system and potentially nick your details. My options are to buy a new computer which I will probably do but I could replace Windows with Linux but that will require the same setting up/learning issues or I could download Windows 11, this is doable despite Microsoft initally saying it wasn't, but without any guarantees from Microsoft. There is one more thing, which I might do, which is to pay 30 dollars to extend the Windows support for another year.
Anybody else on Windows 10? If so, what are you planning on doing?
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Then at some point you will get a message giving you an opportunity to enroll for another year for free which you need a microsoft account to do so but you can create one quickly. You don't need the windows pass code to do this but if you have lost it for any future need there is a free program called key finder which will show you your windows and MS office keys.
Anyway it is a couple of clicks and you have another year of Windows support for free. There are a lot of youtube tutorials on the subject. Hope this helps somebody.
I've found KDE Plasma to be a good replacement desktop as it's quite windows like, so makes a transition easier. I'm using fedora but there will be other distros that feature it. Linux Mint is also apparently very good.
Almost all of them offer a "live usb" option to boot from a usb stick so you can try it out without wiping your computer.
A virtual machine still running 10 kind of works too, but there's a couple of apps I need to use video on, and my laptop is too old to have a GPU with video pass through, so I've still got win 10 on a dual boot for a couple of apps.
Be happy to answer any questions about it.
I don't do much other than use the browser tbh (I work as a developer/programmer all day so really don't want to spend my spare time in front of the screen too!) but it's been absolutely fine.