Windows 10 - Has anybody been able to sign up for extended support?

Northern_Wanderer

BFBW said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

BFBW said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

UPDATE - I downloaded the final Patch Tuesday updates for Win 10 and after the restart, the ESU enroll option appeared. I didn't bother with any of the fixes found online. MS just made me wait till the very last day for the enroll option.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the market share of different OSs this year and next, and the cost of buying a new computer. Roll on the shortages and price hikes. I'm guessing there will be a lot of great machines going cheap that can't upgrade to W11. For me, it was only my processor that wasn't supported and I still think it's decent machine that will last a while longer. I'm off to play with Linux Mint. 

Goodbye MS. I won't miss you slowing down my machine when you're secretly installing your updates nor you restarting my machine when I'm in the middle of something. Time to reclaim privacy.

Almost every device under fifteen years old can install Windows 11. It's simple to bypass the arbitrary requirements. In fact I would recommend bypassing the requirements even if your PC IS eligible.
Here's why... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44iCr6czAo

I've been watching Braxman for a while now. I have no intention of installing Windows 11, time to cut the umbilical cord me thinks. MS has been removing options to bypass the no local accounts thing. The other concerning thing is what G00gle is doing with Android AOSP, but that's a different topic of the same ilk. 

I'm convinced that after the last patch Tuesday updates my PC is now running slower. Am I being paranoid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PyxWPuIUyk - goodbye windows....

Local account option not yet removed.
No need to panic. Use Rufus to install

I didn't explain myself properly, you need a MS account to set-up W11 but there was a way to bypass that. MS has been removing the bypass methods.

GDB2222

I use 4 different OS's at the moment, on various different devices. If you are worried about using windows, then just use something else. There's nothing to discuss, really. 

Most people are happy to use windows, and they are not fussed about privacy. Just like they are happy to use Chrome or Gmail. 

Northern_Wanderer

Yes good, people use what suits them

BFBW

Northern_Wanderer said:

BFBW said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

BFBW said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

UPDATE - I downloaded the final Patch Tuesday updates for Win 10 and after the restart, the ESU enroll option appeared. I didn't bother with any of the fixes found online. MS just made me wait till the very last day for the enroll option.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the market share of different OSs this year and next, and the cost of buying a new computer. Roll on the shortages and price hikes. I'm guessing there will be a lot of great machines going cheap that can't upgrade to W11. For me, it was only my processor that wasn't supported and I still think it's decent machine that will last a while longer. I'm off to play with Linux Mint. 

Goodbye MS. I won't miss you slowing down my machine when you're secretly installing your updates nor you restarting my machine when I'm in the middle of something. Time to reclaim privacy.

Almost every device under fifteen years old can install Windows 11. It's simple to bypass the arbitrary requirements. In fact I would recommend bypassing the requirements even if your PC IS eligible.
Here's why... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44iCr6czAo

I've been watching Braxman for a while now. I have no intention of installing Windows 11, time to cut the umbilical cord me thinks. MS has been removing options to bypass the no local accounts thing. The other concerning thing is what G00gle is doing with Android AOSP, but that's a different topic of the same ilk. 

I'm convinced that after the last patch Tuesday updates my PC is now running slower. Am I being paranoid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PyxWPuIUyk - goodbye windows....

Local account option not yet removed.
No need to panic. Use Rufus to install

I didn't explain myself properly, you need a MS account to set-up W11 but there was a way to bypass that. MS has been removing the bypass methods.

You don't need a Microsoft account to set up Windows 11. They just want you to do so. That's why you use Rufus or set the flags yourself manually, to avoid having to do so. You can remove the requirement for a Microsoft account and set up a Local account with a Username you choose.

Example below:

B0bbyEwing

I got a notification in windows 10 yesterday asking if I want to do the extra years updates. 

Apparently I qualify because I turned on some backup thing at some point or something along those lines. 

Took it's time but got there in the end I suppose.

Not really ready to be buying a new laptop yet & will get round to building a new pc again at some point but again not yet. 

Xenon

Could not be bothered with all this palava - went back to Linux (MX Linux) in my case.

giraffe69

Xenon said:

Could not be bothered with all this palava - went back to Linux (MX Linux) in my case.

So a different type of palava palaver then?