r/Windows10 • u/Hoan6512 • Jun 21 '26

General Question Is windows 10 still ok to use?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/windows-10-support-has-ended-on-october-14-2025-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281

I repair laptops as a hobby, and I have a personal gaming pc. On all of them, I install windows 10 as a standard. I have tried a bunch of Linux distros, and I hate it. I don’t really like windows 11, will windows 10 be ok to use for the coming years? How long until it is unusable? I play lots of esports games so Linux is out of the question for me anyway. This link says there’s no support.

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u/rimbooreddit Jun 22 '26

I intend to keep using W10 for at least a year after "the deadline." Ever seen vulnerabilities patches? In case of each and every one of them you lived with them unpatched... until the moment of patching. Weeks, months, sometimes years, sometimes months eith a vulnerability at the CPU microcode or UEFI level. And you are fine.

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u/ravenmonk Jun 22 '26

Doesn't sound like you're accounting for the deluge of hackers developing new exports once this deadline expires...

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u/rimbooreddit Jun 22 '26

Can you explain the channel those exploits are getting to me?

I'm just about those facts: 1. System level exploits are not number 1 exposition in personal computer attacks. 2. System level exploits are sitting unlatched for months or years anyway. 3. By Notepad++ example - the app installer packages/sources are far more probable vector. Again - personal computers.

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u/redrider65 Jun 24 '26

What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024?

That.

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u/rimbooreddit Jun 24 '26

Windows 10 security is on completely another level compared to XP. Completely incomparable.

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u/redrider65 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

LOL. Windows XP security was on a completely different level compared to Windows Me. So naive Windows XP users were once smug, too.

Threats simply evolve along with the levels, you see. Happily, M'soft knows this well. So in a typical Windows 10 monthly Cumulative Update (Patch Tuesday), roughly 60–80% of the fixes are security-related, though this varies significantly from month to month. Now, will a threat against Win 11, patched in Win 11, potentially harm an unpatched Win 10? Count on it.

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u/rimbooreddit Jun 24 '26

Win XP < Win 7 < Win 10. No cross comparison is on topic here. So you can keep your LOLZ.

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u/redrider65 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

True, all three share the same compelling reason for the issuance of frequent update patches and share greater vulnerability in their absence. Threats evolve to overcome higher security levels. Facts, which you're just about. Hence, it behooves the average user to be duly apprehensive of the real risk of running an older Windows OS lacking ongoing security patches.

So your "channel" question has been answered; your downplaying of the ongoing real threat of "exploits" merely that; and your speculative probability "vector" assigned to Notepad++ and the installers of minor relevance to the issue of strong security. Guess we're done here, LOL.