Windows 10 Expire Pain (2025-12)
By Xah Lee. Date: .
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windows 10 expire
- need to think about installing mint linux
- the faaking win10 expire
- or, need to reboot turn on TPM (Trusted Platform Module), i think it's there, and goto win11
- need to first do backup
- faaking all these problems
- so, backup first. takes 1 hour
- then, check my machine about how to boot to bio or eff something.
- check if there's TPM chip something.
- if so, maybe turn it on.
- before doing this, of course, need about 30 min to 1 hour read n reread about the TPM chip something. asking ai.
- so, if my machine has the chip, then, i have 2 options.
- upgrade to win11, or switch to linux.
- upgrade to win11 is the easy path.
- switch to linux would be painful. basically takes whole day, in fact several days to a week.
- because u need to move all files into linux, make sure they all work as is. install many apps and programing langs and tools.
- and also have to make sure the wifi hardware works, the gpu works.
- if any of these step has an issue, it's gonna be few hours pain asking ai to findout workaround, if any.
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- 3rd option, is to switch to mac. this means, basically i need to buy a new mac. the mac mini.
- but the whole switch process would be much easier.
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- 4th option, is just stay win10 as is. but that won't last long, due to virus etc.