![]() ![]() Perhaps the most important step to keeping yourself safe is to make sure your security software continues to work and continues to be updated. Once again, you’ll face a decision: move to the latest, most current version of Windows, switch to something else entirely, or live with the risks. The other risk is that when your computer dies, you won’t be able to get Windows 10 for its replacement. You’ll have to figure out whether you can live with it or find alternatives. The more pragmatic risk is that eventually, your other software will no longer be updated. Hackers will exploit it, and Microsoft won’t fix it. The gloom and doom scenario is that there’s an unpatched vulnerability to be found. It’ll be up to you to decide if you care. Someday, those updates will probably stop as well. You simply need to monitor updates for the programs you care about. That depends entirely on the application vendor and when they decide to stop supporting Windows 10. Just because Windows stops getting updates doesn’t mean the applications you use will stop getting updates. So whatever Windows 10 looks like then is what it’ll be from then on. Actual feature updates stop earlier, typically when the last “feature release” happens. In fact, at the end, security-related issues are the only fixes you’ll get. The only thing that happens when support ends is that no further fixes are available, even for security-related issues. If you cannot or choose not to update to a specific feature release, then for you, Windows 10 end of support arrives on whatever day your currently installed feature release loses support. ![]() 24H1 would be supported until the second half of 2025 - most probably October 14, 2025, the official end-of-support date for Windows 10.21H2 (the release current as of this writing) will be supported until the first half of 2023.The “rule” is that each feature release will be supported for 18 months after its general availability. In How Long Will Windows 10 Be Supported? I cover the expected support schedule for Windows 10. Making sure you have good security software and backups is key to continuing to use Windows 10 if you choose (like it is now). ![]() ![]() While doom and gloom is always predicted, you’re likely to be more affected by decreasing application and vendor support than you are by malware specifically targeting Windows 10 vulnerabilities. Applications running on Windows 10 may even get updates after then, but that’s likely to end eventually as well. On top of that, the Task Manager (System Monitoring Center) received an updated icon and right-click now works everywhere, the apt-key deprecation warning on Ubuntu was fixed, Lite Patch was updated to handle potential update errors, and Microsoft Teams has been removed from Lite Software.Windows 10 will continue to work after its end-of-support date (October 2025). Linux Lite 6.2 will also feature an updated Papirus icon set, the Shotcut video editor as a replacement for Openshot in Lite Software, a fix for a hostname bug and kernel removal in Lite Tweaks, a fix for a codename bug in Lite Sources, an improved Hardware Database to support more devices, and new wallpapers. Linux Lite lead developer and maintainer Jerry Bezencon announced today the Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux Lite 6.2 release to give users an early taste of what’s coming to this lightweight Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop environment.īased on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series and powered by its long-term supported Linux 5.15 LTS kernel, the upcoming Linux Lite 6.2 release promises a revamped Lite Upgrade utility with a new end-user dialog and integration of the latest LibreOffice release. ![]()
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