That's my plan. We're not raw dogging the internet any more, like when the Blaster virus went around and we all had to learn what firewalls and ports were.

These days the main attack vector is going to be the browser or social engineering. The OS isn't going to save you from either.

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Creat 16 points 10 months ago

ESU runs until Oct '26. So those that can't or don't want to leave windows have that option.

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Cevilia 14 points 10 months ago

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real_squids 3 points 10 months ago

iot will get patches til 2032. by then i think most people will be sick of windows enough to switch

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__ghost__ 7 points 10 months ago

That's my plan

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Cevilia 5 points 10 months ago

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__ghost__ 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah I will. Only really keeping it around for a few niche games, my daily driver is centos

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Cevilia 4 points 10 months ago

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entwine 1 point 10 months ago

I'm curious how you ended up on CentOS, especially for a desktop/laptop? That distro effectively died when IBM bought Red Hat, but even before that it was afaik mostly used for server deployments due to RHEL compatibility.

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finitebanjo 5 points 10 months ago

My 10 LTSC runs out in 2027 without extended support. It's been my main driver for years.

I also don't have this issue of accidentally upgrading. Though if it did I wouldn't notice because I always hibernate to avoid waiting an hour for startup.

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TonyTonyChopper 5 points 10 months ago

hibernate

In my experience on a modern SSD there is no difference in startup time between hibernate and normal boot. 10-20 seconds from hitting the power button.

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finitebanjo -1 points 10 months ago

You're wrong because

There is no difference between a regular startup and waking from hibernate, it cannot really be compard as two separate things in the first place, the RAM was stored in memory before shutdown. Type of drive does not make any difference. Maybe you were confusing it with Sleep?
Windows runs some fuckery all the time during a normal startup. I've seen both Windows 10 and 7 take upwards of an hour to boot. This is avoided via hibernate.

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TonyTonyChopper 2 points 10 months ago

nope

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kazerniel 0 points 10 months ago

I always hibernate to avoid waiting an hour for startup.

I'm sorry but wtf, I've been a Windows user all my life, often on old, shitty PCs, but startup never took more than a couple minutes at worst. Sounds like something is really wrong with your PC O.o

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finitebanjo 1 point 10 months ago

It's been wrong with all of my Windows PCs for over a decade, It doesn't seem specific to any software on them, so I say it's a windows general issue. I've even run memory diagnostics from a bootable USB, no issues. I've verified the same machines can boot Linux fast and perfectly fine.

I've even seen memes about it, it's a really common problem.

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mrgoosmoos 2 points 10 months ago

that is legitimately a better option than using Windows 11

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown 10 points 10 months ago

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SleeplessCityLights 6 points 10 months ago

That first time you use the start menu after the upgrade is an ooof. I have no idea how did that make its way to release.