Well with all those "Feature Updates" Windows 10 for me had already morphed into Windows 11 anyway.

My Win 10 ver 1703 Build 15063 was the last functional build for me. One that still actually works with my PVR that is. Once that becomes deceased at my age 81 I will retire away and find something else to do.`

Of all the programs I have had, and still use today - there have been heaps of feature updates - none of which have ever proven slightly useful to me.

Some people are horrified that my Paintshop Pro 1995 edition has never been updated since 1998. Why? I only use it to capture screen shots, copy jpg files, resize files, add comments to where required etc.

As we say here in Oz....

Duz me.

[Clarity]

I confess to keeping a Win7 box alive and well simply because the mix of applications on that machine "Duz Me" for "creativity" with graphics, etc. Photoshop 5.5, MS Office 2002... Not a Luddite, just comfortable there and, though not front facing to the web, is on my internal network and accessible by the other machines.

Part of my "if it ain't broke don't fix" viewpoint---and my abhorrence to directions towards "subscription OS" and monthly payments, etc. (days of original old "big iron" and terminals/billing).

One can go crazy with the flashing lights and buzzy new things that don't actually do anything different than Win 3.11 for Workgroups. :)

Linix, on the other hand, has been a kind of fresh air injection for this old DOS/Windows guy. There's a bit of adventure there.

I really don't care for win 11. It is such a productivity hit that It is a non-starter for me. I tried-n-tried it and it took 3 major 3rd party utilities to get back to win 10 functionality. The loss of the functional task bar and start menu was a major drag. I am on my laptop right now with 8 browser windows open, with probably 10 tabs each in them. I can easily swap between them and know instantly what browser (news, sites, social, etc) I am on. Do that with win11 and it is nothing but a maze of incoherent windows to tab through.

So I will ride win10 till it dies and then probably go slumming with nix.

What ever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" Still running WIN 7 on a primary machine without any problems. I miss XP.

Same here. Win 7 on a somewhat older machine, just to run all my genealogy software, the developers of which know their user-base -- old folks like me who aren't very up-to-date with their technology, so the developers keep their software compatible with this old OS.
All the other machines in the house are newer and run current LTS releases of Ubuntu.
I never "graduated" to Win 8 or anything more recent from Microsoft. Just never had the need or desire.

On the bright side, Win 10 still has two more years of security patches.

Hopefully by then they'll have a better OS.

The Win 7 and XP UI were both great.

I don't blame anyone for sticking with Win 7.

On the bright side, Win 10 still has two more years of security patches.

Bright for who? While I sold off my web biz some time back I still maintain and clientele of computer nerds that want their machines top notch and ready (and willing to pay).

Win 10 is my exit for even that bit of work that I kept to keep the brain from ossifying, bones getting calcified, heart and arteries coated in plaque ...

TWO MORE YEARS?!

(Joke ... I ain't quitting, still do support for Win 11, but dang it... MS is taking more and more of THAT away by black-boxing this and that in code and execution etc....)

Dylan said it best, way back when: "The Times They Are A-Changing".