LTSC IoT Enterprise support until 2032 - massgrave dot dev/windows10_eol
All my laptops are running Linux. Daily driver is currently on Manjaro with a dual boot to a very stripped down Win11 for some professional software with no Linux version.
Main PC is on Mint.
HTPC is on Win10 and I do not give a single shit what happens to that installation. Its purpose is to run Steam and VLC. If it gets a virus, it gets a virus. If it steals my info and sends it to China, then someone in China will know I play Jackbox games and watch weird arthouse Japanese movies. I could not care less. And if a virus ruins the OS, I’ll flatten, reinsrall Win10, and go back to not giving a shit 2 hours later.
I couldn’t find a Tiny10 ISO anymore to share with you… Let me upload next week and I’ll paste it here. :)
Meanwhile, just nuke a normal ISO with:
https://christitus.com/windows-tool/Interesting! This does a lot of what I’ve always done by hand lol. What a time saver!
I never learned how to fiddle with regedit before I moved to Linux, but I always ran this or this when I used to help friends and family setting up a Windows system.
By installing Linux on it
debian trixie was released at just the right time, about two months before win10 went on life support.
Yep. Recently convinced my brother to install Fedora Silverblue on it.
Same way you’d use a phone that’s EOL. Even my old ass EOL router still held up because it accepted no incoming calls as if it wasn’t even there. Any other more involved attack vectors would probably fall outside of scope for the people potentially targeting an average person. Where the real danger lies with outdated systems, especially W10 while it’s still fairly fresh, is user error - visit the wrong link or download a wrong file and you are in the world of pain.
What do you mean? Win10 still works. MS didn’t Thanos snap it.
No, I mean is it prone to being hacked now more than before? Or has MS actively pushing updates to worsen it to force people to move to Win 11?
It was simple to get extended security updates for w10 for a year. After Oct, it’ll require payment for another year, up to 3 years total I believe.
Did something happen to Windows 10 that made them vulnerable?
Support has been extended, but 10 is EOL, which means soon™ it’ll stop getting updates. Once that happens, any vulnerabilities that exist (discovered or not) will stop being fixed.
I’m not using windows 10, but you can use a version which is still getting security updates.
We still need Windows 10 to run things. So I switched those systems to LTSC.
just install ltsc its easy
we still have some win10 here. not too worried given who is using them and for what purposes. we’ve retired from some of our work so we don’t have or access any sensitive data (medical records mostly) anymore.
if you need it, try to score the extra update time for ‘free’ (check settings-windows update for the offer). i’ve done that for a few people and it didn’t even mess up their ‘backup’ status… but do check to make sure it’s off if you do that method. there are other ‘methods’ but idk if LW lets you discuss them.
I’m not
By telling win 11 to constantly to fuck off.
You can still safely browse the internet with an adblocker and don’t download unofficial software. Only idiots and security people raw dog a windows machine online without a firewall and a NAT gateway.
What is your real question?
NAT is not a security feature. Just use a gateway with a proper firewall.
