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W10 is actually still the majority of windows versions. You can get 1 year extended support by switching to an online admin login & syncing to ONeDrive or buying it (with $ or MS points - whatever that is) and businesses can by 3 x1 year of escalating priced support. Support for win10 ends on Tuesday (oct 14)!

I know all this because my desktop that can easily run triple-A video games isn't good enough (secure boot) to be upgraded, so I'm supposed to buy a MS surface and use it as a boat anchor I guess...



Then you'll be glad to know that you can bypass the TPM2.0 (Secure Boot) check that Win11 installation requires.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-re...

https://gist.github.com/asheroto/5087d2a38b311b0c92be2a4f23f...

So you can upgrade to Win11 even on an older PC. No need to pay through the nose for extended Win10 Support.

But in my personal experience, Win10 runs better on older PCs than Win11. I also prefer the Win1o0 start menu, to the Win11 one.


Yeah you can run Windows 11 on most Windows 10 machines, but in exchange for "better security" you get a bloated interface that just bogs down your perfectly fine computer. Windows as a platform has so many security holes that I think the chances of getting pwned by a very specific Windows 10-only exploit are realistically zero.




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