As probably most people here know, Windows 10 will no longer be supported by Microsoft later this year, and we'll all be forced to switch to the police state fantasy Windows 11 that nobody likes.

What are your plans for this ?

Obviously with Windows 10 you can no longer be online without being a massive security risk.

Nevermind that older computers may not even be able to do this switch.

I never used Windows 10, in a similar way I plan to never use Windows 11.

I will maintain an offline Windows 10 computer networked with a Linux machine. I will be able to download my games and transfer them to the other computer

I refuse to be forced to use Windows 11.

stop being such drama queens, windows 10 won't magically turn into a virus-infested shithole the moment microsoft pulls the plug on it, just ask the people that still use windows xp, vista and 7

I'll probably wake up, get some breakfast, have a smoke, then log into my computer to start the day as usual. Windows (nor macOS) hasn't been a main OS on my machines (and in most cases just isn't on them at all) for close to a decade at this point.

Either it'll get community patches to keep it going, there'll be a custom win 11 release that strips the rubbish/powershell script like win 10 OR I'll just have a Linux distro as my main & keep an offline copy of windows on a separate partition for any games that don't run under Linux (dwindling fast).

Dual boot, Linux Mint for online and Win10 offline for word, excel, autocad, etc.

For gog, Lutris and offline installers.

... and another thread on this issue... heh...

But to answer the OP, *shrug* I used Win 7 until a month and a half ago. Currently still mulling over giving Linux another honest attempt. But otherwise, it's the updates that mainly made me stay away from 10 so far, so it only become something to very tentatively consider once it was certain that it was not going to get any more major/feature updates and I may only start to feel a little at ease once it'll stop getting them at all, to be frank, so considering the update mechanism, I see that end of support as a positive and, unless I'll somehow switch to Linux after all (which becomes even less likely with every day that passes and I still don't even try it again), I'll just keep using it for years to come the same way I used 7.

Shrug.

The same way I never used Windows 11, and won't use any future iteration of Windows. I miss nothing, I want for nothing exclusive to Windows.

reality is that you need four computers, where only the newest one serves as a gateway, and the rest are game consoles decade, each frozen in time; if you want to be up-to-date, the game preservation program will take you there aimed at the always-newest-windows... I keep my best games on CD/DVDs they can't be updated and are read-only,

the fresh offline installer is like fresh wine..... nice and with surprises; the best are old, matured installers that fit your win version and a timeframe of 5 years for your graphics.... really cheesy rarities...🧀

Obviously. You really should not believe everything you read :D

I've been on a 3+ year old Windows 10 version before I finally had to update to 22H2 about 16 months ago. Knowing there will be no more updates is actually great, as MS won't have another opportunity to randomly break things or stop some games from working.

Planning on riding out Win 10 for like more 5 years, if not longer. Sure as hell not updating to 11. In the distant future, I might swap to Linux if MS does not change direction with Windows, which seems very unlikely.

There was a similar discussion just 5 days ago:

Windows 10 End of Life | GOG On Linux Solution?

Since I have been using W11 for a couple of years now (like most people have) - absolutely nothing.

When an OS nears its end-of-life date, Microsoft will often extend that period a bit more.

MS did that for Windows XP and 7, last I checked.