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It's 11:06 PM on Monday, 10/13/2025 PDT as of the time I'm writing this. In less than 1 hour from now, it will be Tuesday, 10/14/2025, aka International E-Waste Day and (perhaps very ironically) the day that Windows 10 "dies" and joins all of its predecessors (at least in the eyes of Micro$oft).
I've long known this day would come for my 2019 HP Pavillion laptop which still runs Windows 10 (in spite of it meeting all the minimum requirements for 11, I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to downgrade my PC to 11 based on how much worse than 10 it is from what I've heard from others) and have been considering what to do upon the day finally approaching. And now here I am almost on the aforementioned calendar date preparing to move my accounts (especially the ones that contain my banking information, though then again, most ATM machines are still running on Windows XP even to this very day, look it up if you don't believe me) that I use during much of my online activity to a dual boot of Linux Mint Cinnamon.
I'm not sad about 10's end of support like I was with 7, quite the opposite for the most part. I've never been a particularly big fan of Windows 10 to begin with ever since I've had to start using it thanks to my uncle choosing to switch the software on the family laptop from Windows 7 to 10 in July 2015 (which lasted over a year from then until the hard drive started experiencing issues/being corrupted in December 2016, and I wholeheartedly believe that Windows 10 is what truly killed that computer, a computer with Windows 7 hardware being made to run a version of Windows higher than what it was originally built and sold for, as evidenced by other people experiencing the same issue when after they "upgraded" their computer's software from 7 to 10, not to mention how unstable more modern versions of Windows are upon release lasting all the way up until near the end of support).
Which of course has left me in the past few weeks remembering Windows 7 and how not only did it look visually stunning, it also just worked and it was also the last version of Windows where users were still the ones in control of their own computers instead of some megacorporation with remote access to the device you purchased. There was no preinstalled generative A"I" bloatware to worry about, no forced "updates" at the most inconvenient times to bloat your system even further, no worrying about whether said forced "update" at the whim of an M$ executive could brick your system in an instant, no pressuring you to create a stupid data collecting Microsoft account as opposed to a private, local account just on that particular computer, computers were designed to act as computers and not just as smartphones with keyboards, the start menu was actually organized and functional before the disaster known as Windows 8 came along and hasn't been the same since, and I could just keep going on and on from here. And all of my grievances with Windows 10 are only even WORSE and more AMPLIFIED with Windows 11.
It's been over 10 years and I still find myself excited to occasionally see someone still using Windows 7 in the year 2025. My heart has never stopped longing to return to it ever since it the very second it had vanished from my household and now I feel this way even more so. It's not just nostalgia blinding me here, it was truly an objectively better operating system in every way possible, especially given how far downhill Microsoft has gone and continues to go in the race to reach the very bottom from here.
But all hope for me is not lost, as I plan to run a virtual machine of 7 in the near future (though probably not for banking purposes even with a good antivirus and everything installed onto it, even though I'm fully aware that ATM machines I use quite regularly are running on an even older and longer unsupported version of Windows, as mentioned above). And perhaps once this laptop I currently have finally stops working, I might just try and search on eBay or something for an actual older laptop that came with Windows 7 preinstalled onto it (though I would most certainly run a Linux dual boot on it for certain work and online banking related purposes).
What are you guys planning to do with your machines from the next few minutes?
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SUKO555
w11 isnt that bad once u debloat it
Dude, you have no idea just how bad 11 is. It's not just generative A"I" and other bloatware that's the problem, it's also the fact that you MUST have a Microsoft account instead of having the option to use a local account on YOUR computer, the taskbar has been stripped of functions such as the calendar menu, the start menu is even WORSE in 11 than it is in 10 (unless you mod it with Classic/Open Shell or whatever), etc. Everything that sucks about 10 is even WORSE in 11.
by xxRebellious_Emmaxx; ; Report
crimson
https://youtu.be/wqh_40hyGYw
a video about the end of windows 10
jadengrave
i am so upset about windows 10 not being supported too, i just got a desktop in 2021 and it was my first large purchase and i use it to produce music
:(