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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 9 points 1 month ago

What will happen afterward? My cpu isn't supported.

You don't get security updates.

You can get something new, install Linux, or you can also just choose to not care.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

I recommend against that last one heavily

[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What would reasonably happen if you just don't?

Realistically? Nothing. So many things have to go wrong for you to get a virus or some other form of malware. Your web browser and other software will continue getting updates for at least a little bit after the OS is EOL. Windows 7-8.1 has only just started losing software support in the last 1-2 years.

First your OS needs a vulnerability, then the software you're running needs to have a vulnerability, then you need to run said software, then you need to run said software and do whatever it is that can be exploited (or just run some infected software). Every once in a while you'll run into exploits that need no interaction at all, and that's where you can really get screwed. Windows had one the other day with ipv6, but that requires your firewall to be set to allow all ipv6 connections in which unfortunately a lot of them do. But even then someone has to have tried reaching you out of the 72 kajillion ipv6 addresses out there.

That said unsupported devices are also a risk to supported devices. Say there's an exploit like the ipv6 one and device A gets infected. That malware could then use other tricks to affect supported devices that haven't been patched yet, or there isn't a patch for it.

I use a ton of unsupported devices, but only intermittently, and not for anything important. The likely hood that I'm getting a virus on Mac OS 9 is so incredibly small. Plus I'm not checking my bank account on that thing. I would not do anything at all important on an unsupported machine, and if it HAS to run I'd quarantine it in it's own vlan so it can't affect the important things.

[-] Merlin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I’m using Linux now for a long time as my daily driver and for all the important stuff.

Games though I still end up using windows 10. My cpu doesnt support 11 and there’s all that crap of copilot recall and whatnot that I’m not interested at all to have on my pc.

Hopefully playing the occasional game won’t be a massive issue because I’ll have to go windows 10 with no security updates then.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Gaming under Linux is getting better and better. With all the work Valve has put into Proton, the list of games which don't run has been shrinking.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Same boat. Linux as DD and w10 for games. Without respect to windows fuck w11. I'm not interested in their macOS-like system.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Hello future Linux user

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

You just stop getting updates.

And we all know how secure Windows is, so I really don't recommend that.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

No secure updates never lead anywhere good. Will it be doomsday? No probably not. However, the malware authors are going to target Windows 10 as much as they can because it will become an easy target the longer it goes unpatched.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

If you really want to stick with Windows there are methods to bypass the CPU/TPM requirements of Windows 11.

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