I got an email about support ending in October 2025; isn’t this still extremely early? Aren’t they usually about two or three versions of windows down the line before they end updates?
I don’t want windows 11 (and no I don’t want Linux either, knock it off); this is ridiculous.
people always retcon versions of windows into being fine or even “good” as they gain market share and then get discontinued in favor of an even more enshittified version. The trajectory is mostly just towards bad, but people hyperfocus on relatively small annoyances in the new version, or performance issues when they updated their old PC to the new version, and then deem the new one as absolute trash. holdouts will skip a version but then eventually be forced to upgrade, and the consensus ends up being “every other windows release is dogshit” but really they’re all bad, it’s just frog-in-boiling-pot strategy from microsoft slowly making the shitty parts more intrusive and locked down and spying more.
Linux otoh despite occasional blunders here and there by different distros and developers of software components is mostly trending upwards
Windows peaked with 2000 and it has been downhill since then.
GNU/Linux is a long struggle session after the other in rapid succession that never ends and lasts for years at a time. But at least we get to speak.