The biggest issue for me is that the Windows 11 installation is destructive. I have zero desire to wipe my computers clean and spend the rest of my life reinstalling things that are so new there is no media. I'd need passwords, links, etc that I don't have. I have things that I use regularly that are no longer available as well as some that I would have to buy a new license for, and I won't do that. And before some suggests dual boot, I am not going to do that. I retired from being a computer techie and don't want to start gathering tools to partition my drives and all the associated yada yada that goes with it. So Windows 11 will just pass me by. 1 have 2 of 6 PCs that can be upgraded, but frankly that whole "no longer supported" thing doesn't really set off terror in my heart. All the talk of "vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit" I just ignore. Here's the logic. If you go to a baseball game you COULD get hit in the head with a foul ball and die. COULD. Not WILL. COULD. Then we get "My banking information is on that computer." Your banking information, or a link TO your banking information? All of that stuff is password protected, is it not? Unless you blatantly have a file on your computer with your password and you name it passwords... wow! I have a file with my passwords. It is named something completely random that gives no indication what it is, AND it is password protected. Feel free to try and guess that file name and password.

So just because Windows reaches end of life doesn't mean your computers are suddenly going to catch fire. Christ you have people here still on XP and that's been dead for 8 years. Has anybody accessed your computer from outside and stolen your recipe file? It COULD happen. It likely won't. As arrogant as I am, I have never be THAT arrogant to think I am important and/or valuable enough that someone would target me for a hack attack. What do they want from me? My album? My recipe for cranberry orange oatmeal cookies? MAYBE my recipe for Potato Skin Pie. (It's AWESOME! Great for your Super Bowl party. I'll share the recipe if you like!) Even Mi¢ro$oft, as arrogant as they are, isn't brazen enough to send a kill routine to computers that wipes the OS out of a computer when that OS goes end of life. Is "no longer updating" really enough of a threat to take on a new science project of wiping, installing, and repopulating your computers? I could. I have 6 here. I just don't want to, so I won't. When I die they will all be formatted anyway. (So nobody gets the pictures of me in a Speedo... Those who don't know what I look like won't get that joke. Picture a Bartlett pear with a rubber band around it.)

Just my opinion and my $.0212 (adjusted to reflect 6% inflation).

Last edited by eddie1261; 01/25/22 07:56 AM.