# Is anyone planning on sticking with Windows 10 and exercising prudence while taking their chances? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889 "2025-03-20T21:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/141 "2025-04-02T08:48:41Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > There is no **intrinsic** reason that Windows 7 could not be as secure as the most recently updated Windows 11. Sure there is. Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0. Regardless of whether they called it Windows 11 or Windows 7e, it would still be incompatible with your hardware and require an upgrade to get the new security features. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/142 "2025-04-02T08:57:44Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Sure there is. Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0. That’s actually an unusual exception to the general rule, which is that newer Windows versions (in general) simply require faster processors and more and more memory in order to deliver different UIs and often no genuinely useful new functionality, and sometimes degraded functionality. The requirement for TPM (which can be bypassed anyway) is an anomaly in the general trend. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/143 "2025-04-02T12:12:06Z")
Moderating: > [@The\_Librarian](#): > > That is whole lot of stupid to justify your whining. This is attacking the poster, not the post. This is not the pit. Knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/144 "2025-04-02T12:21:44Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > My laptop has an install of Debian Sid/unstable, which I first installed around 1998. Whenever I get a new laptop, I just copy it from my old one over to the new one, make whatever tweaks are necessary to use the new hardware, and get back to work. Sid is a rolling release, so as the various programs that make up Debian are updated, my laptop updates. Debian unstable was my setup for years (with KDE Plasma instead of Xfce). I just needed to be certain to read the change logs, as I once removed my entire desktop environment due to carelessness. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/145 "2026-06-14T23:11:39Z")
A bit of an old thread, but I had to report in: yesterday, I got pretty fed up with this ol’ PC and it’s slow responses/load times that I knuckled down & ordered a new Windows 11 machine. I’ve done multiple remedies, between disk repair, defgragging, going back to earlier restore points, but it’s just too much work to keep her up anymore. The realization that October is just around the corner and support would be non-existent made me realize that I’ll need some time to “transfer data, cargo, and crew from the _Enterprise-A_ to the new, shiny _Enterprise-B_” “-A” is a ten-year old desktop with a lot of great miles, and still good potential . . . but she’ll never see Warp Speed on the Internet after October again. Tripler That is, if her Wi-Fi card doesn’t give out by then. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/146 "2026-06-14T23:27:06Z")
Well my circa 2016 PC finally died so I am going to get a Windows 11 laptop soon. I am using a variety of tablets and my phone for now. RIP it was a workhorse! ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/147 "2026-06-15T01:57:09Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > Do yourself a favour - do not login to CRA, your bank, or anything else that could have a negative financial impact on you. Yes, I don’t use my phone for any of that – which is becoming increasingly inconvenient. For that stuff I use my **much safer** Win7 machine. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/148 "2026-06-15T02:23:52Z")
I’m not sure what the intention is here? Using an unsupported OS with an out-of-date browser is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/149 "2026-06-15T03:53:43Z")
I’ve never owned a Windows PC, although I run Windows of various vintages in virtual machines. Currently typing this on a vintage-2011 MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.11 (“El Capitan”). My more modern box upstairs, my work machine, is a vintage-2018 MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.15 (“Mojave”). I can’t recall a single time when my reasons for upgrading had anything to do with concerns about unpatched vulnerabilities in an older OS. It’s always about “I want to do ‘x’ and you can’t do ‘x’ on the latest OS that this machine can run”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889/150 "2026-06-15T04:55:21Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > A bit of an old thread, but I had to report in: yesterday, I got pretty fed up with this ol’ PC and it’s slow responses/load times that I knuckled down & ordered a new Windows 11 machine. I’ve done multiple remedies, between disk repair, defgragging, going back to earlier restore points, but it’s just too much work to keep her up anymore. Sounds like it’s primarily a disk issue, if it’s hardware related at all. Perfectly valid reason to upgrade, but I suspect there’s more life left in the old one with a reformat and possibly a new SSD once you get your stuff off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-planning-on-sticking-with-windows-10-and-exercising-prudence-while-taking-their-chances/1015889.md?page=7)