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Humm, I installed Windows 11 on a really old Dell laptop (clean install). I'm sure it was not HW supported but it installed fine. I may have had to click something like, " Yeah I know it doesn't meet the specs"; but otherwise fine.
No, I don't like Windows but it's what my partner needed at the time.
As long as it is 8th gen Intel or newer it is officially supported. It depends on what you mean by "really old." I have hardware from the early 2000s that runs Debian.
I just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on.
As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don't let personal preference put you at risk.
I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it'll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there's no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
looks at self
How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
Because MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it's not already a huge target?
Compared to not getting any patches at all? That doesn't seem like a good justification for staying on something EOL.
I stayed on XP until some game I wanted didn't work (by that time, 7 was out), I stayed on 7 until some game I wanted didn't work (by that time, 10 was out). Nothing bad happened to me. I'll take my chances. At least until I find the time to get into Linux, whenever that may be.
One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
They said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
I hope you are joking...
just give contractors the option to sell their pcs without your bloatware for a hundred bucks cheaper or something
*ad supported Windows
*all windows
I'll just keep running my Win 7/Ubuntu dual boot machine tyvm
I hope you don't connect Windows 7 to the internet...
It is fine as long as it is air gapped properly. It also might be fine on its own vlan as long as you don't go browsing the internet.