About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...

[partialbarre]

As many people already know, October 14 will be the day that Microsoft will completely shutdown all support for windows 10. From my understandings of it, this will leave users to either upgrade to 11 (Which I personally dislike from my experience with it on laptop) or risk their system being vulnerable to issues and security risks. 

I'm personally aiming to learn how to jump towards the Linux train, and so I am wondering on how all the windows users here will deal with this shift. 

I've also seen from browsing the forums that some of you are already using Linux and so I'm curious as to what was and currently is your experience with the OS.

It's a simple question but I hope that this thread can help people in the foreseeable future. ^^^

[Daniele63]

I'm on Windows 11, but I deleted the bloat / telemetry to the best of my ability. I want to go to Linux someday but for now, I have too many apps that rely on Windows to be able to move, I know I could run some of them in Virtual Machines but they are slow and inconvenient.
I've tried many Linux distros before so I'm familiar with it though.

For the people who want to stay on 10, they should install the LTSC IoT 21H2 version, that is supported until 2032. There's "ways" to activate it.

[lakes]

I've been on Linux Mint for about 3 months. I like it but it was a bit of an adjust at 1st. It was a pain installing it because the iso I downloaded was corrupted & I had to redownload it. But I don't think Linux is as hard as it's made out to be, at least the few distros I've tried. I also like that a lot of distros come with customization software built-in. Although a lot of the more trending desktop/window manager themes tend to be more modern/flat. So finding stuff I like takes some digging. A lot of people recommend either Linux Mint or Ubuntu to newcomers. But people have some issues with Ubuntu because of the company Canonical. I'm not entirely clear on what the issues are. But keep that in mind if you decide on Ubuntu.
I'd also suggest looking into what software you use is and isnt available on Linux & if you're ok with the alternatives to that software,

[xrossmediabar]

If I ran Windows 10 I'd simply just keep using it. It's a great OS. I hate Windows 11 to the core of my heart. So much AI bloatware

[townpizza]

Sticking with 10 for as long as possible. I've heard of a lot of problems with 11, so I'd rather not risk it.

[solinus]

I'm on Windows 11, but I deleted the bloat / telemetry to the best of my ability. I want to go to Linux someday but for now, I have too many apps that rely on Windows to be able to move, I know I could run some of them in Virtual Machines but they are slow and inconvenient.I've tried many Linux distros before so I'm familiar with it though.

Same situation here. I use AIMP for music and Rainmeter for desktop widgets. I may also need Adobe apps for college as well.
I heard AIMP is going cross platform in 2026 tho.

[ee]

But people have some issues with Ubuntu because of the company Canonical. I'm not entirely clear on what the issues are.

microsoft's partnership with canonical maybe? or is it because ubuntu's bloated as i've heard?

[Patachoo]

I personally use MacOS Sonoma as my main OS (I haven’t upgraded to the next MacOS because I don’t have enough storage lmao), and I use Windows 10 with Revert8plus on my old Lenovo laptop (mostly using this one for storage, backup my games and consoles, managing my ebooks library etc), and yeah that’s an old laptop so it can’t be upgraded to Windows11. But, correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t Microsoft is mandated to bring security updates for few years even after the end of a Windows OS ? I’m not 100% sure about it
But yeah I totally understand why a lot of people are coming on Linux now, Windows 10 was not really great imo (and quite ugly-looking), Windows 11 doesn’t seem really good, the recent MacOS updates just eat a lot of storage without any really good functionalities etc.. I totally understand why people are tired about it

[xrossmediabar]

compared to windows 11 & 8, win10 was amazing.

[lakes]

But people have some issues with Ubuntu because of the company Canonical. I'm not entirely clear on what the issues are.microsoft's partnership with canonical maybe? or is it because ubuntu's bloated as i've heard?

I think it's a bit of both? I didn't know that microsoft partnered with canonical. But that would explain some of the complaints I've heard.