MS Windows – End of Life support

October 14, 2025, sees the End of support for Windows 10.

This leaves users with Several choices

Upgrade to Windows 11 on current hardware. This may or may not work and will only work if your current hardware meets with Windows 11 requirements.

Option 1, Replace Windows with something Like Linux Mint, you can keep working, use Firefox, LibreOffice, cloud services e.g. Nextcloud (even Windows drive) etc. Option 2. Keep using Windows 10 without support, updates etc Option 3. buy new hardware just so you can run Windows 11.

Linux Mint is Free (as in freedom) software, but does have some closed source components to make things work, this is fine, at least from my view point as most users, just want things to work out of the box.

There is an active support community on the Open Communications platform Matrix [3].

Links

1. MS WIndows End of Life
2. LinuxMint
3. Matrix
   • Linux Mint community chat – Matrix
4. End of 10 – get help with installing a Linux distro
5. Article on The Register
6. End of 10: The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence
7. KDE for Windows 10 Exiles
   • KDE Website
   • KDE Social

Tags

#MSWindows,'#EndofLife,#Linux,#LinuxMint,#FreeSoftware, #NextCloud,#Cloud,#EndOf10

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