"Win10 support will end Oct 2025"

not sure why people so scare about that. It's not going to uninstall itself, duh.
software is not a piece of bread that will mold after expired, duh.

stuff will still be made compatible with W10, no one will suddenly say "yeah we not making driver / software for W10 anymore", that's stupidity alienating out large chuck of their business.
if you worry about security issue there plenty of 3rd party security solutions. But then again, no matter how good your security software is, when the living thing in between the monitor and the seat isn't using it's 2 braincells, then nothing can save it.

will keep using W10, skip 11. See what happens at 12, if I still alive by then.
there's no real benefit of moving to W11 so far in productivity standpoint, you just inviting problems.

there's nothing wrong of using older OS as long as it works for the user's / device's purpose.
the so crucial machines that manage your money in and out... still run XP btw.

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Oct 7 2022, 11:30 PM

Windows 10.

still on win10

tested win11 and it always have the printer driver problem where it cannot connect to my HP printer despite reinstalling the driver many times

I have tested both W10 and W11 last week.

If anything is below the 8th gen, don't bother. W11 will lag like shit even with 16GB RAM and NVME. Stick with W10.

If 8th gen or up, no problems even with the same specs. I'm guessing the drivers were not optimized for anything below the 8th gen.

Very true.

I have several machines still on 2K, XP, Vista, 7, 10, and the latest 11. All are linked together for file transfer and app sharing. Worried about malware? Install Spybot. Worried about intrusion? Install Comodo Firewall. Newer machines can use TinyWall or GlassWire.

I had some memory leak in 11 for few months. I think they disappeared after 22H1 and seems 22H2 is great. If you have newer ish laptop go with win 11

may as well wait for windows 12 and skip 11.

New laptop means which processor?

Last 2~3 years old laptop should run fine

actually win 11 memory leak still got, file explorer,
i tested on my new pc, keep open many file explorer, then close it, memory does not release
as windows explore still using it