Charlie Stross1d ago

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux (by @lproven): Turns out that Microsoft will support Windows 10 until 2032 *if* you can live without their cloud and AI bullshit: just download/install an obscure version aimed at corporate clients who want long-term support:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/windows_10_ltsc/?td=rt-3a

(I'm a macOS/Linux guy, but if I had an old Win10 box and wanted to avoid Windows 11 and Recall this would be a great way forward)

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

: Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

The Register
Show threadoheso1d ago
@cstross @lproven I have access to that obscure LTS version (it's not obscure if you're corporate / educational). But the vendors of our accounting software are going to require Windows 11 from this summer so ...
Show threadlproven1d ago

@oheso @cstross Ye gods. I'd be looking for new accountancy software vendors, then. Anyone unable to support the MS corporate-LTS-product variant is... at the very least, seriously questionable.

A former professional manager of fleets of corporate Windows PCs speaking here, incidentally.

Show threadoheso
@lproven @cstross Point taken, but that's not my decision to make. Path of least resistance is for me to update the half-dozen machines this affects.
Apr 23 at 2:46pmWeb
Show threadlproven1d ago

@oheso @cstross Regrettable but fair.

OTOH, in my experience, major promotions or beneficial career changes can result from behaviour such as sticking one's head above the parapet and making damn sure decision-makers are fully aware of warning signs.