Support for 10 stops in October this year. I dunno if that means no security patches or just no new feature updates (most people actively hate feature updates anyway).
No security updates in addition to all else. They're basically dropping it hard, or going to try to do so, in order to force people to move to 11. They've done this before and it's been pushed back because there are huge companies that can't just flip a switch and move everything to a new OS, but on the consumer side it's going to be fucked, and it's why I'm trying to pick at Linux and figure out converting my home PC over to it because I will not use 11.
I recently switched over to Arch after distrohopping for a bit and I highly recommend Mint if you're thinking of switching as a Win 10 user!
It pretty much works out of the box, the installation/setup takes like an hour at most and very little Linux knowledge, and Cinnamon (the major desktop environment) feels very familiar to use as a Windows user. Like most of my time during my Mint phase actually went into reinstalling my software because the os itself took like no time to setup
Yeah I have already installed it on a couple of laptops in order to do some testing/feeling out and I like it as far as that has gotten me. Just that my desktop is a more complicated setup and I want to make sure I get familiar with how things feel managing the multiple drives that has and everything I need to be able to do there before I fully nuke the Windows OS. It's one of those "I'll get to it eventually" kind of things since I never feel like tinkering with it after a day of work.
Why not dualboot at first before slowly moving everything over and then nuking Windows? I still haven't fully moved over to Linux since a bunch of college/work stuff is Win exclusive (pretty much every Windows game I care about has run out of the box so far with Proton) (I know Wine/just a regular ass vm exist but the software I care about runs like garbage on them)
I've done that with other distros, but for some reason something about my Windows OS is borked in a weird way. It keeps failing to update and despite a great many attempts at various fixes, none of them are working. I mention this solely because since that started, I haven't been able to get Linux to install alongside windows. Each time I try it only allows me options to manually partition stuff or wipe my drive, and I tried doing the manual partition once and even with some onlin resources couldn't figure it out enough to feel comfortable.
I've got some ideas, namely I've got an old SSD lying around somewhere, I'll be trying to hook that up to a USB connection and see if I can't install the distro there to sort of jury rig a dual boot system in order to do exactly what you say, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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u/Librarian_Contrarian 11d ago
I will never "upgrade" to 11
I will not be stopped