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Posted by bundie 4 hours ago

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates(www.neowin.net)
133 points | 103 commentspage 2
jbird99 4 hours ago|
Especially with hardware prices at the moment, this is a welcome announcement for many companies right now who need a refresh.
jmclnx 4 hours ago|
And sad for us. We may have to wait for nice cheap used hardware for use with Linux or *BSD.

But I wonder if components would have been stripped out due to AI. I heard even older RAM and SDD/HDD are getting expensive.

Terr_ 2 hours ago||
At least in a desktop context, you can get by with just a separate drive to boot-to.
temp987 1 hour ago||
when I need the Web I use Live Linux. I do not EVER let MS, or anybody else muck up my computer system(s).
abroadwin 2 hours ago||
"Quietly" seem to be the most popular headline word this year.
zerocrates 1 hour ago||
"Quietly," like in "has quietly become the biggest/best X" is silly and everywhere, but "quietly" in this sense of "they didn't announce it and people just happened to notice the change" is fine and descriptive I would say.
mattbettinson 2 hours ago|||
Biggest LLM giveaway these days
bitwize 2 hours ago||
Win11 has come up short,

So 10 needs more support.

How do they offer it, according to AI?

Quietly,

quietly,

quiet... L-Y!

flerchin 2 hours ago||
Do the start menu ads pay for this? It is conceivable that they could.
customguy 32 minutes ago|
You mean do the ads in the Win11 start menu pay for Win10 updates? Or does Win10 have ads in the start menu, too?
silentsea90 1 hour ago||
"quietly" is a dead give away for claude. It is everywhere.
grouchomarx 3 hours ago||
this will probably go on for a long time, which is great because I won't install win11
msabalau 1 hour ago||
Nice, it gives me another year to think about what I want to do with my old gaming laptop
greenavocado 4 hours ago||
You can get a completely minimalist Windows 11 by grabbing an ISO from Microsoft then reprocessing the ISO by feeding it into this utility: https://github.com/christitustech/winutil (Win11 Creator Tab) to get a NEW ISO which you then install. The end result is an extremely clean and stable Windows 11 installation.

  The resulting image can remove telemetry, bypass hardware requirement checks, and enable local account setup out of the box.
Official docs:

https://winutil.christitus.com/

https://winutil.christitus.com/userguide/win11creator/

delta_p_delta_x 3 hours ago||
To anyone reading this: please don't use ISOs downloaded from not-official sources.

Use an autounattend.xml, the mass graves, and a WinGet JSON to customise an online image.

[1]: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/package-manager/wi...

EvanAnderson 2 hours ago|||
Do be aware that an autounattend.xml can cause Windows setup to execute arbitrary code. Their provenance matters too. It's relatively easy to encode scripts (or even binaries) into the XML to run during or after Windows setup. You can eyeball them, for sure, but I bet most people don't.
delta_p_delta_x 1 hour ago||
Indeed. I mention this in light of the high-profile supply-chain attacks recently across diverse platforms (Arch AUR, Shai-Hulud, etc). Any online tool that purports to modify an entire install medium should be heavily and continually scrutinised. I'm not saying the developer can't be trusted, but the infrastructure and people in general can't.
greenavocado 23 minutes ago||
Fine, but this is Chris Titus we're talking about, not Red Star
layer8 3 hours ago||||
The tool linked by the parent doesn't download ISOs from non-official sources.
LocalH 2 hours ago||||
I use uup dump myself, which downloads the components directly from MS and builds the ISO locally
greenavocado 3 hours ago|||
Did you even read what I wrote?
delta_p_delta_x 2 hours ago||
I did. You said:

> to get a NEW ISO which you then install

This is not good.

sodacanner 1 hour ago|||
You provide an official Windows 11 ISO and the tool modifies it to get the new ISO. The tool is open-source here: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

I don't see the issue.

greenavocado 1 hour ago|||
LOL. The entire ISO transformer code is open source.
pizza234 2 hours ago|||
NTlite has also been around for more than a decade, although it has a freemium model.
eviks 3 hours ago|||
That won't help you get to the minimum of Win10, though
greenavocado 3 hours ago||
Yes it will, please re-read carefully. winutil removes hardware checks.
dietr1ch 3 hours ago||
Even cleaner when you don't install Windows at all :P

Why would people put themselves through the painful process of keeping themselves safe from their own computer?

StableAlkyne 3 hours ago||
Not everyone has the luxury of moving off of Windows. Solidworks, for example, has no Linux or Mac port.

Though I do agree, if your workflow is supported by any non-NT based OS, that's probably a better option

wildzzz 2 hours ago||
Anything I need windows for is work related and runs on my locked down (and actually very cleanly stripped down) windows 11 laptop. Its amazing how much Microsoft hates the consumer but bends over backwards for volume license purchasers.
shevy-java 3 hours ago||
I have Win10 on a computer on my left side as "backup" system.

I decided I won't change to Win11, so Win10 will be last Windows version to use. It's no issue in that I am using Linux since late ~2004 anyway, but I am also unwilling to cater to Microsoft anylonger. I think it is time that governments no longer force people to use Windows in general. For similar reasons I reject the upcoming mandatory age sniffing that lobbyists are pushing for (together with their attempt to kill off VPNs).

b3ing 3 hours ago|
I wonder if it’s because hardware costs are going up
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