I get that there won’t be any security updates. So any problem found can be exploited. But how high is the chance for problems for an average user if you say, only browse some safe websites? If you have a pc you don’t really care much about, without any personal information? It feels like the danger is more theoretical than what will actually happen.
Or… are there any examples of people (not corpos) getting wrecked in the past by an eol OS?
OP, don’t be stupid. Update your OS.
I do, just wanted to know more about how bad stuff actually would be if you wouldn’t. Asked questions, learned a lot.
Fair enough. My apologies.
Unless it’s to Windows 11. Then stubbornly decline every week that it harasses you until the end of time.
Windows 11 is literally just a reskin of win10, but with added HDR functionality. There’s zero reason not to upgrade.
They almost snuck this dystopian nightmare into it. So yes, don’t trust any future windows upgrades from here on out. Who knows what they still have in it that we didn’t find out with this amount of backlash:
https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-recall-on-hold/