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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For now yes but when a zero day is found 1 guy could literally take down every single 10 install and Microsoft won’t be bothered to fix it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean... That could happen to Windows11 and be almost as catastrophic even if Microsoft does eventually fix it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that as soon as a security issue is found on windows 10 it won't be fixed, it is perpetual. In Windows 11 it will probably be fixed before you even know it exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You seem awfully optimistic about Microsoft's response time lol.

How many people are out there today with broken locks on their doors or windows? How many stores do you think close every night with the minimum wage worker forgetting to lock up properly? How many people out their use incredibly weak passwords, share their credentials with others, or leave everything on post-it notes?

Security is a cost-benefit analysis. Depending on what exactly this hypothetical exploit requires I might very well be comfortable running Windows 10 anyways. The vast majority of security exploits require physical access to the machine- we only hear about the remote ones more often because they are scarier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be a remote exploit or it might not. An OS is not just a program that runs in the background, if it is critically important.

These kind of exploiters don't tend to attack you in particular, they have botnets scanning the web for any compromised machine.

Running windows 10 is fine today, might not be fine after EOL. It is irresponsible to shrug it off and not even consider the alternatives out there, including windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's where the "analysis" part of "cost-benefit analysis" comes in and it doesn't make sense to generalize like you seem to want to.

Is it really that much more responsible to run Windows 11? You seem to have a LOT of faith in Microsoft to keep you safe. There's plenty of reasons to not switch to Windows 11.

I also use Linux on some machines. But I can also see why there are reasons why one distro or another, or even Linux in general, may not be the right call for some people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I use Linux exclusively but I don't think it's relevant to the discussion.

I would rather use windows 11 than any other EOL version of windows. I loved windows XP when it came out, wouldn't dare to use it today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why not? They were fixing Windows XP remote-execution exploits all the way up to 2017. For free, for anyone to download.

And that stuff is only used to take down children's hospitals, they don't waste 0-day exploits on some rando's home PC.