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Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Sorry, but this sounds like its half bs.
It probably has less to do with "rejecting" or anything to do with RAM, and more likely to do with all the embedded systems running it, or lazy people who don't upgrade simply because they don't need to
I know lots of people running old versions of Mac OS, and it is because their hardware doesn't support newer, and it works fine for their usecase. They're not thinking about the hardware in any way.
In fact, in contrast to MacOS, Microsoft actually offers this extended support option, whereas Apple tells its users to get f'ed fairly quickly (yet another reason NOT to use MacOS / Apple. You pay a premium for hardware they often don't support for long). Also, Ubuntu offers 15 years now support for LTS (which is crazy).
I use Fedora btw.
I also like fedora. It’s one of the few distro which has software update all centralised in one app.
I am trying cachyos in a VM and I couldn’t find a way to upgrade in GUI.
Is using an outdated macOS as dangerous as using an outdated version of Windows when the machine is connected to the Internet?
People just target macOS less.
Like Apple was shipping a year old vulnerable version of java at some point, and their update mechanism still sucks compared to everyone
The only reason it's more secure at this point, is because they've made it extremely difficult to install things from outside the app store by default. If anyone else forced you to jump through as many hoops as they do, they'd be hit with an anti trust lawsuit
Yeah I was thinking so. My friend is at least using the newest Firefox instead of the outdated Safari, so I think that eliminated one major attack vector at least. Thinking about convincing her to install Linux mint tho
Yes
Yeah, but that's also because Apple doesn't even inform the user that their version of macOS is EOL. So unless you're an active follower of Apple news, most people won't care -- at the least simply because they wouldn't even know. Same thing with Android, etc... whereas Microsoft makes it annoyingly obvious that you're running an unsupported version.
That's true.. And its not a good thing either,