What Are Your Plans For Hardware Upgrades With Win 10 EOL Coming?

[DVDR_Dog]

Do you say f it and do a rufus Win 11 install? Time to junk the older hardware?
I am still kicking and screaming not willing to let Win 10 Go. Funny I had no feeling like that moving on from Win 7.
So far 2 out many systems I own are Win 11 legal out of the box. I plan to trade up my daily driver laptop I suppose.
The rest of my fleet which is more A/V oriented not sure what to do., there is always Rufus My rig that does the recoding is already upgraded. Might be a good time to break a very stubborn habit and try an AMD CPU. Long story, I had indirect personal ties to Intel for a long time, Andy Grove to be specific.
So your thoughts? I know you gamers are already there if you rely on your PC, and there's always the bleeding edge techno guys which I used to be a member of. But how about the rest of the members of our forum? Your ideas and plans

 

[ThumperTM]

Do you say f it and do a rufus Win 11 install? Time to junk the older hardware?
I am still kicking and screaming not willing to let Win 10 Go. Funny I had no feeling like that moving on from Win 7.
So far 2 out many systems I own are Win 11 legal out of the box. I plan to trade up my daily driver laptop I suppose.
The rest of my fleet which is more A/V oriented not sure what to do., there is always Rufus My rig that does the recoding is already upgraded. Might be a good time to break a very stubborn habit and try an AMD CPU. Long story, I had indirect personal ties to Intel for a long time, Andy Grove to be specific.
So your thoughts? I know you gamers are already there if you rely on your PC, and there's always the bleeding edge techno guys which I used to be a member of. But how about the rest of the members of our forum? Your ideas and plans

Already upgraded all machine to Win11.

 

[Zer0Trust]

...bust out to 11.
I liked 7 and didnt want 10 for the longest time, even though beta'd WIN 10. For me...working what I do...gotta upgrade to stay current due to occupation, whether for IT security purposes or day to day support or gaming side I just have to. There are reasons why I have a device or two on 7 and even one box on XP SP3. My reply is getting too long already.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

I guess it's gonna be time to bite the bullet soon. My daily driver a 14" laptop is going to need a replacement. I am fond of those year old latitudes so I am looking around for deals. Shudder I finally am forced to buy a system, it's been decades if you don't count that mini-pc but that is for home entertainment and network duties. Came w/11Pro but I went back to 10, time to grow up. So my question still is how will enterprise installations respond? I haven't run into one yet that converted and honestly what does 11 offer them anyway. Stay tuned.

 

[starhawk69]

No plans to upgrade any hardware, my main machine will do Win11 no problem and a couple of my laptops will also. May plan is to set up dual boot with WIN11 and some flavor of Linux. Been trying out the different distros to see which one I like best. Then windows will be used as a gaming system and Linux for most everything else. Like Zer0Trust I have several old machines that have older Windows installed. One with XP SP3 one with Windows 7 and now one for Window 10. All of those are on a subnet that isn't allowed internet access

 

[DVDR_Dog]

Right now I am using a ThinkPad with an i7-6600U and maxxed out with 20GB of RAM. It has Win 11 Pro installed via Rufus mod. It runs just as well as it did with Win 10 Pro. I have to confess I did install StartIsBack. I have a hard time with the icon driven menu choices and the limitations of file manipulations. There are third party solutions to handle that and Total Commander is my new friend.
In case you haven't noticed, Microsoft is sending out pop-ups reminding you that your hardware isn't Win 11 compliant and time to thing about Win 10 EOL. This is no doubt an attempt to stimulate hardware sales over the holiday season. Bah-Humbug. Most of my systems are high performance and will run Win 11, modified O/S or not.