Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
danciestlobster@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I would love some advice, personally. How big of an issue is this really? Like…do I really have to care if there aren’t system updates anymore? How big of a security risk is it actually?
Well the thing is, we don’t know. Maybe 10 is patched so well that no one is hanging onto a major exploit just waiting for EOL. Or so well that no new major exploits are found (extremely unlikely). Then so long as you’re just gaming or watching YouTube it doesn’t really matter.
But someone could be holding onto one or someone could stumble into one. And all it takes is one.
I wonder if I could jail it from the rest of my network.
The problem I guess is if I dual boot, I wont feel like the data on linux is safe, and Id need to ensure I set up and take down the jail while booting windows…
I guess I should just fix the linux issues that make my gaming experience less fun. Maybe I need a fancier graphics card.
Sooner or later the issue will be that some software probably won’t be available any more for your system.
This is a minor issue compared to the security risks. See the other comment in this thread for a good explanation.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In the short-term (0-6mo, maybe less): nothing really changes.
Medium-term (maybe up to a year or two): you’re looking at real potential to get infected with --who-knows-what–. Hard to say how long it would take or how widespread it would be.
Longer term: massive, massive security hole. Microsoft has probably even patched a few major things by now, but there will always be more