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by bsdetector 443 days ago
In October when Windows 10 support ends it'll finally be the year of desktop linux.
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Well, those that are on the Windows 10 IoT LTSC builds will enjoy updates until 2032.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

Do you know where to buy it?
It's hard to find information about it, but this post has quite a bit (some may be out of date): https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bbof9s/windows_10...
As far as I know you need to sail across the high seas.
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I'd like to remind you that there are still millions of people around the world using Windows 7 daily. The fact that some software is no longer supported by its developer doesn't mean it stops working somehow, or becomes radioactive.
It becomes easier to exploit, as it no longer gets security updates; and vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed.
You can't really exploit something when its attack surface is nearly nonexistent, which is the case for most people who use an outdated OS on their personal device, for example.
What is it about unmaintained software on a personal device that somehow makes the attack service non-existent?
Even if there's an exploitable vulnerability, the exploit has to be delivered to the target system somehow. You don't have much of an opportunity to do that with a device that doesn't have a public IP address. Most likely the user themselves will have to do something that would compromise their system, like visiting a website that would serve them an exploit for their particular combination of browser and OS.
"I'd like to remind you that there are still millions of people around the world using Windows 7 daily"

Correct, and I am one of them!