Right off a cliff. I refuse to downgrade to windows 11 and when push comes to shove I will be using Linux, I already use it a lot for my projects so ditching windows won’t be hard at all.
Same. My main laptop came with 11 and won't regrade.
My desktop at home and “spare” laptop (the one that goes with me where it might get (more) damaged or lost, so I don't want to take the newer/expensive one) are both still running 11. Laptop2 keeps nagging me to “upgrade” but the desktop isn't even compatible (wrong sort of TPM?). They'll be getting the Linux treatment next year, as might the one that is currently on 11.
Though I suspect the life will get extended, like happened to XP when small-factor low-spec laptops (and to a lesser extent tablets, though few of those ran Windows or pure Linux, usually Android instead) were popular, there was no way Vista would run on them, and 8 wasn't ready enough for release. With the number of Win10 installs out there that might move to Linux, or be binned and replaced by an Apple device, it might not make sense for them to allow it to EOL without a sudden uptick in Win11 adoption. They'll need to keep supporting 10 for some large commercial and government clients anyway.
From a privacy standpoint, W10 has seen most of the crap backported already so its a bit of a wash.
Windows 11 is a bit different and does have some wonk still. But there are things integrated that are nice. I moved to an ultrawide recently and the W11 native options for things like window sizing or taskbar management are much better and don't need 3p apps like you do on w10 with the likes of PowerToys or Taskbarx.
I still use Linux day to day and may even move there for work to be honest now that I don't do a lot of IC work in windows now.
Well, there's no time like the present. What's stopping you from switching right now? If I didn't want to not have to fuss around with games I'd have already made the switch myself.
Inertia and I have some very Windows specific programs that I’m using for my current project and using the alternatives will just be slower. I’m using windows LTSM so I’m good for another few years.
I really wonder if this is cueing up another situation similar to what happened with winxp, and wannacry on the many machines still using it years after support ended. There will be some that move over to win11 with varying degrees of enthusiasm or reluctance, but win10 is going to linger.
With gaming on linux, there's been a "it just works" attitude with enthusiasts for years but that rings hollow to me in a similar way that "it's just like lego" is for self-building your own PC - it ignores the small mountain of paper cut issues and gotchas it's almost inevitable someone will run into especially if you try to do something off the beaten path. Not all of gaming is neatly within the steam short-walled garden or well-behaved even on windows. It's fine if you have the attitude and time to be prepared to tackle those issues, but nowhere near where I'd want to recommend it for even a small proportion of the tens of millions of PC gamers still using win10.
