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Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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

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yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why not? They were fixing Windows XP remote-execution exploits all the way up to 2017.

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.

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paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean… That could happen to Windows11 and be almost as catastrophic even if Microsoft does eventually fix it.

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- pathief@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    pathief@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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