Microsoft has announced that "The ESU program for consumers will be a one-year option available for $30". There appears to be no more information available, save that "Program enrollment will be available closer to the end of support in 2025". So whether this means one year only (with no possibility to buy consumer ESUs for up to 3 years , as available for education and commerical customers) I do not know. But I suspect that a lot of people will pay $30 to push the problem down the line for 12 months. Views?
You can find the information on this towards the end of this page: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/10/31/how-to-prepare-for-windows-10-end-of-support-by-moving-to-windows-11-today/ -- under the heading "Extended security updates for individuals and organizations of all sizes", first bullet after the opening paragraph.
@amnnet7300 Says:
YEARS AGO I DISABLED UPDATES IN W10 PRO AND IT WORKS PERFECTLY, NO PROBLEMS AT ALL... NO ONE IS GOING TO FORCE ME TO CHANGE!
@lunevoile Says:
I use Mint religiously with a Windows 11 IoT LTSC dual-boot and that is solely used to play VR with a friend. I gave Windows the smallest drive in my system, a 500 GB NVMe. Linux is installed on a 1 TB SATA SSD and has a whopping 10TB of ext4 formatted storage available to it. Why did I not put Mint on the NVMe? Well, let's be honest, Windows needs that NVMe I/O performance way more than Linux does...
@williambarrett7108 Says:
I wouldn’t mind trying out bsd. Or anything else as long as it’s an open source platform! As I have multiple older computers that I wish to utilize.
@williambarrett7108 Says:
I wish you would do a video about pop os. I really like it for older computers. I got burned by google chrome just like windows so I use pop and it’s great for banking and writing code!! Love it but I don’t know how to really use it to my advantage.
@franklategano1915 Says:
I have another laptop with Windows 11. I hate it. And I don't use it.
@notrtdsx Says:
Nice videos as always. I am gonna try to stick to Linux permanently and not go over to Windows at all... Or I'll just dualboot Arch (btw) and Windows 11 because of gaming. RIP Windows 10, my personal favorite Windows version of all time. 4 months and 3 days left. Linux all the way! Love from Norway 🇳🇴
@davidw5647 Says:
I'm done with Windows - so many problems with updates. The last one I had disabled my soundcard. Retried time and again getting the drivers to no avail. Just installed Linux Mint 22 and so far so good. Can do everything I did on Windows so never ever going back. If you do download Linux do make a donation of whatever you can afford to support the guys and girls who maintain thes o/s for us all
@lorieliemagadia8590 Says:
I will switch out of windows. that's what I will do. An OS that updates and does not upgrade frequently. they're like iphone now keeps upgrading w/ sht I don't ever use nor will I ever learn that existed.
@lorieliemagadia8590 Says:
sht I don't want to upgrade but my laptop's not supported. I hate transferring file from one device to another. I have lost so many data and personal settings. I am not the type who adapts to change in interface easily. This is giving me anxiety.
@najeebnaj2870 Says:
Thank you,
@smichels5117 Says:
I have been leaning g heavily toward Free BSD for all but 2 (of 10) systems I have running around my house at present. I am already running Ubuntu with the Linux Mint desktop on one quad core system, and similar OS’s on my various RPi(s). I may try some alternative Win11 installs on a couple of my desktops. Two existing laptops upgraded easily to 11, so they will be left “as-is.” There are many choices, and I had not considered ChromeOS yet, so may entertain that idea, as well! Thank you, for your consistent and thorough content! Cheers!
@ButchNackley Says:
Well, $30. a year isn't too bad. That's $2.50 a month. Pretty cheap actually. I think I'd rather do that, than to use Windows 11. My PC does support TPM 2.0 (it is disabled in the BIOS) i9-10850K, 32.0 GB of RAM. I just don't want 11
@Slotnikoff Says:
I have never used any operating system but Microsoft's. I am NO techno geek. Right now, I am using Windows 10. I use my laptop for just a couple important tasks. Number one is messing around YouTube. Number two is email. Number three is keeping my data sheets (money-related) up to date. And finally, arguably more important than the aforementioned three is playing my mp3 and flac files. If anyone can offer me the best (read "easiest") option, I would be humbly grateful.
@sobreinquisidor Says:
Install a debian 12 and do windows 10 vm offline...
@YunoGasai-i5d Says:
Meanwhile here I am watching this video from my windows 7 computer 😂
Never been hacked before thanks to my anti virus 🤭😂
@kevinjacobs4244 Says:
Hi I think your Videos are great, with brilliant explanations of how to do things and how things work. I have been looking to see if you have done a video on the "Unable to reconnect Mapped Drives" which seemed to happen after a Widows update that Windows have seemingly not bothered to correct. So I presume Win 11 will also suffer from this problem or have they actually solved it?Unfortunately I have not been able to find one which surprises me as I would have thought this would have been a problem you would have covered. Or have i just missed your Video on the subject? Perhaps you can put me right.
@jankowalski3401 Says:
I like FydeOS but still afraid to trust Chinese product...
@jmmorgenstern7005 Says:
And the reason why I'm mentioning tiny 11 and Tiny 10 is because tiny 11 let's say for example bypasses the the certain things that it will run on any old operating system whatever it is at least within the 5 to 10 year range maybe more but tiny 11 will run and again Microsoft needs to fully support it with every single update patch available if not everything I said in the previous post needs to be applied and you need to tell your Congressman your House of Representatives everybody whoever is in power even the US Supreme Court needs to make a ruling on this and he said no that Microsoft in this particular situation will need to support projects like tiny 11 and Tiny ten that don't care about certain things about your hardware for the Microsoft made that you have to have certain Windows Hardware requirements that's alone because basically what you're doing is is you're forcing people to throw out perfectly good operating systems perfectly good operating systems and throw them in the garbage so Microsoft in this case is making sure that the customer has to be all of you green people out there need to complain and need to make sure that Microsoft really really you know and and and and an apple and whoever it is really truly hear it and that they know that there's consequences for throwing up perfectly good computers that all they need is just a Windows or Mac update or or or or or iOS or Android update but other than that the machine is sound and if the company like who makes the device or makes the software makes you throw out a machine then they should be charged with E-Waste the company I'm talking about anime God bless you all I hope that the green people the people who are who are who are the green people who basically are against e-way star against all these things with the with the environment and everything that they can change that they get into it and especially forward this to your local Democrat for all these posts that I made here to your local Democrat and let them know what Microsoft is up to and let them know that Microsoft should be forced to fully support operating systems like tiny 11 that don't care about your Hardware requirements that Microsoft put in I'm not a Microsoft should buy out these companies know but they have to fully support these companies again nothing Microsoft should buy out these companies but you need to fully support companies like this why why to make sure that they're not charged with E-Waste and for throwing up perfectly good computers that have that the only thing that keeping them away is the Windows update or Mac update or Android update or iOS update etc etc that's the only thing that's keeping them away from functioning in order to keep them away from severe fines companies like Microsoft and Apple for e-waste
@jmmorgenstern7005 Says:
Otherwise I have another idea for Microsoft Apple etcetera etcetera etcetera or anyone who manufactures equipment that needs updates support tiny 11 support tiny 10 support any Windows operating system on Mac operating system or whatever or even Android or iOS or whatever and it needs to be supported even whenever until the until who knows when the machine drops dead you know what I mean search things like tiny Windows 11 tiny Windows 10 Apple has versions like that of iOS has versions like that that needs to be fully supported by the manufacturer if not they need to be charged with e-waste with forcing people to throw the computer perfectly good systems perfectly good operating systems in the garbage the manufacturers like apple and Microsoft etcetera etcetera need to be charged and Congress the House of Representatives your local legislators need to get involved
@jmmorgenstern7005 Says:
And I'm talking about Microsoft and Apple and whoever it is if you force people to throw a perfectly good computers the only thing is the reason why they're throwing it out is because you as the company Microsoft or apple or whatever is refusing to give updates and that's the only reason why that apple or Microsoft needs to be charged with with purposely making people throw perfectly good computers into the E-Waste bin and then the companies themselves need to be charged with eBay not the individual consumers who are forced to throw away these computers the companies like apple Microsoft Etc they need to be charged with purposely making people throw E-Waste like computers and electronics into the garbage that all it needs is an update which of course they refused to give and I mean update for free with no cost to nobody
@jmmorgenstern7005 Says:
Shouldn't Microsoft be charged for e-waste yeah I think they should be charged for E-Waste expiring Windows 10 and making Windows 10 not eligible for for a bunch of things that people do online today I think Microsoft needs to be charged for e-waste and for forcing people to dump the computers in the E-Waste garbage dump that's what I think Microsoft needs to be charged companies like Microsoft needs to be charged and E-Waste fee if a system is no longer being supported and especially if they don't support systems like tiny 11 tiny 10 etcetera etcetera which means Windows tiny 11 Windows tiny 10 Microsoft needs to fully supportive and make sure that it can be installed on no matter whichever Hardware you have as long as they're the computer is less than 10 years lesson 10 or 15 years old no problem when Microsoft needs to fully support when tiny Windows 11 and Tiny Windows 10 otherwise they should be charged with forcing people to dump computers and putting E-Waste into the world
@ModeratedContent Says:
Hello, an update to the win10 to win11 headache would be appreciated, as October is just about 5 months away.
@jefferyjames8292 Says:
Back to windows 7 OS 😂 😂 I still using W7
@brucedeleon9103 Says:
I Will use Zorin OS 17.2 for the new year ..2025 ..
@PAULWARREN-r6m Says:
120 million trash and going to landfill good going microdumb.
@Hue-Munguss Says:
Whatever you do don't use harmony OS unless you want to be spied on by the chinese government.
@purgie Says:
I am fed up with Microsoft. W11 is terrible. Installed linux mint dual boot and i begin really to like it..
@Kevin-the-Just Says:
A lot of us will be upgrading our home-built PCs with new compatible CPUs and motherboards before getting our 'free' OS upgrade. However, I've never changed ALL the hardware and I wonder what might be involved with getting it all working again. I believe Windows will need to be reactivated. Anyone been round this track?
@smartwatcher9307 Says:
What have you got to say about NTDEV Tiny 10 and Tiny 11 ?
@thearifshahriar Says:
My plan is to migrate to Linux mint as main drive and keeping windows 10 or 11 in VM in case I have to do something that's not possible in Linux mint.
@AlexRamiro-p9y Says:
R.I.P. Microsoft
@spencergrundy9069 Says:
I will probably change to Linux when Windows 10 support ends. As I am not technically savvy will you be showing us how to change from Windows to Linux. Will I need to delete windows and if so is there a very easy way of doing so. I like your channel because you explain things slowly and simply.
@comrademessenger Says:
it would be great to see a video explaining the exactly the security vulnerabilities of an unsupported win 10 machine. Members of my family think it’s fine as long as they don’t download anything dodgy, cant convince them!
@Peppermint1 Says:
Will fresh install be possible after support end?
@ronstermeister8 Says:
and all this time I thought windows xp was windows 10! ... 😀
@pedrocasPN Says:
Option: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
@maxholbrook7071 Says:
When windows 12 escapes Redmond, it should be safe to move to Win11 because Microsoft has finished tinkering with WIn11.
I feel Win11 was just an experiment to see how much they could get away with, it's obviously a lot.
It's pretty hard to play football when they keep moving the goal posts because somebody thought it work better if it moved over here.
@mtmoto4522 Says:
linux looks better and better by the day the bloat ware is rediculous waiting for steam os to be supported by anti cheat software and not be locked away by windows gate guarding pc games from competitors also waiting on a steam controller that works on pc out of the box with no kb/m needed on steam os
@kerrybarnes7289 Says:
what do we do next ? stay on windows 10 and buy a good anti virus
@bobreiber2066 Says:
Easy , dual boot Linux and windows 10. Use Linux for any on line apps and win 10 for those apps that only work with Microsoft's OS.
@kenrieck2088 Says:
already moved to Linux, Mint, 5 years ago
@Christen-ed2qj Says:
I think to change to Linux Mint...
But I'm scared my printer a Epson L360 is not working on Linux...
Also I download movies with Motrix and Videodownloadhelper is this still working in Linux...
By the way I like using Brave because of the privacy issue
@neosandi6 Says:
education verson is ok price , becouse tey want to hook up fresh fool ' s for win os , an d later , they don't know other alternatives , and ...
@qwertyuiop-cu2ve Says:
What happens after October 14 2025 if I use a Linux distribution with a virtual machine with Windows 10 inside? Will the lack of security updates still present a problem when the OS is in a virtual machine?
@TalHalJa Says:
Windows 10 gives me all the memories I had with it. Oh that sweet Nostalgic feeling.
@thepalerider5121 Says:
Force to buy new CPU AND WINDOWS. Na, F W. May try macOS and delete 10. or Finix. 3rd world countries can't afford that crap. For that money, rather buy a Cellular. And make a local server for music and movies. All I see is YouTube, Which I can watch on Roku along with TUBI, FREE TV, CANELA TV,PLEX. Ho I see, the bank, well my phone is working fine.
@isaacsolenberger3315 Says:
0patch patches volubilities better than Microsoft I have a pc with Windows 7 that can't be upgraded to win 10 because it crashes I use 0patch on that one, and I bank and do all that high security stuff and been just fine no issues only issues are some applications I have to use older versions of to get them to work but so far that hasn't been much of an issue I'm sure as Windows 7 gets older and older it will increasingly get harder to use, but It's just fine for regular household use with 0patch installed my main pc has Windows 10 IOT LTSC installed so ill be able to use that till 2032 with no issues which is what I recommend for folks that don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 because it sucks its Windows vista bad lol
@SkylakekungCh1000 Says:
next code your own OS in assembly and made it compatible with most x86_64 ARM64 devices with graphical desktop interface and graphic acceleration that works with both team green and red including integrated
@warrenjoubert4027 Says:
I have to get off Windows, and sooner rather than later. Going Linux Mint. Might be tough, but I have to make a break from MS cause that hole is getting deeper and deeper.
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