End of Support for Windows 10 - What are people thinking?

I built my current system towards the end of the Windows 7 OS lifecycle and up-graded to Windows 10 pro - no problem.  I have upgraded the GPU, added some storage, but little else.  It still works well enough for me not to need to up-grade the capability.  The machine doesn't tho' meet the requirements for Windows 11 - CPU is not supported and the Motherboard doesn't meet the secure boot firmware requirement.

I'm sure that other folks are in this situation.  What are people thinking?

I don't want to essentially throw away a perfectly good computer for the image processing tasks for which it is mainly used.  At the same time I see more and more threats out there trying to get me to click on this or download that, which so far I have mangaed to avoid.

Also some of the spyware stuff which seems to be integrated into Windows 11 is rather disconcerting - obviously you can turn some of/(all?) this stuff off if you are aware of it.  For me, as an Adobe Photoshop user, if Photoshop XX is no longer running on Windows 10 in the future, I will have to up-grade to 11, but I will be rather peeved.

Then how long before Windows 12 comes along - groundhog day!

Just wondering how some of the folks who are into wildlife and nature photography like me, are thinking about this.

I have a system on Windows 7, two on 10, and one on 11 - I'm not doing anything to any of them

That said, I do like Win 11 A LOT better than Win 10 - the user interface is so much better.

E.J. Peiker wrote: IThat said, I do like Win 11 A LOT better than Win 10 - the user interface is so much better.

Good to know your thoughts.  Haven't tried Win 11 yet - one of my laptops is anxious to go there.

I wasn't planning on doing anything but had to reboot today and ran into a series of screens which basically forced me to download Windows 11 so I guess that I'll go there. 

To add to this - I was being told by the Windows Upgrade software that my desktop was not Windows 11 compatible. To me this was obviously wrong so I finally looked into it. Windows 11 requires that TPM, Trusted Platform Module, 2.0 be enabled and mine wasn't. I enabled it following Microsofts instructions and I instantly became Windows 11 compatible. Although I thought that I had blocked the upgrade my desktop was upgraded to Windows 11 last night. So far things are fine with only a few annoying changes that one has to figure out such as how to change the selected speaker but nothing has proven too difficult. 

I not going to do anything. Until I run into programs. I can't upgrade my computer to 11.

It seems to me every other New operating system is a "great leap forward" which more likely than not lands flat on its face and then the next one is the great leap forward fixed. For that reason, I'd probably wait for 12.

I've been exactly in the same situation as Phil. For now, I still use my i7-2600K Sandybridge Win 10 pro machine built in 2011 for photo editing. I had upgraded the GPS, RAM and additional internal HDDs, though. But the CPU isn't supported by win11, of course. However, the machine still works just fine for all my tasks including AI based applications in PS, Topaz, DxO PureRAW, C1 etc. though sometimes a bit slower, of course which doesn't matter for me. Nevertheless, I recently added a win 11 ProArt PC based on the setup and recommendations of the known Pugetsystems company which has no European business, unfortunately. But I was able to get exactly the same components here. That said, my current win10 PC is not able for video editing which was the main reason for investing in that additional win 11 machine. Of course, it will be suited for future software upgrades once they actually won't run on the old machine anymore. I still have to get familiar with the win11 interface, all the settings and options but in fact I don't like all the MS ads and notifications popping up in win 11 all the time. I have the feeling that there's more tracking and spyware from Microsoft in win11 compared to win 10pro

Wolfgang

Totally get where you’re coming from. I’m in a similar boat with my setup. I’m sticking with Windows 10 as long as it’s supported because it still does everything I need, and upgrading my whole system just isn’t worth it right now. I hear you on the security concerns and the bloatware with Windows 11. For now, just keep your system updated with the latest patches and be cautious about what you download. And yeah, it’s always a gamble with new versions, but if Photoshop starts giving you issues, you might have to bite the bullet eventually.

I'm going to contradict my earlier post in this thread. After figuring out how to turn on the security chip on my MBs, I have upgraded all of my systems capable of running Win 11 to Win 11. I really do think it is MS's best OS they have ever released.

E.J. Peiker wrote: I'm going to contradict my earlier post in this thread.  After figuring out how to turn on the security chip on my MBs, I have upgraded all of my systems capable of running Win 11 to Win 11.  I really do think it is MS's best OS they have ever released.

You probably meant turn on the security chips on your Win 10 systems?  Not the mb on the Win 7 system unless that too is on a faitly newer mb?   I have a several years old new Dell PC so it probably has the latest tech and chipsets so the upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 was flawless. 

I had a system that was running Win 7 that had the security chip on itOntPhoto wrote:

E.J. Peiker wrote: I'm going to contradict my earlier post in this thread.  After figuring out how to turn on the security chip on my MBs, I have upgraded all of my systems capable of running Win 11 to Win 11.  I really do think it is MS's best OS they have ever released.

You probably meant turn on the security chips on your Win 10 systems?  Not the mb on the Win 7 system unless that too is on a faitly newer mb?   I have a several years old new Dell PC so it probably has the latest tech and chipsets so the upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 was flawless. 

As long as the MB has the security chip on it, it doesn't matter what OS it is running but yes I did mean a Win 10 system (running a Win 7 shell which is why I had temporary brain fade).