On Friday 15 August 2025 00:48:14 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
If the hardware is OK, you can buy the windows 11 license only and upgrade on the fly.
I bought a secondhand Thinkpad X390 and it came with Windows 11 (yes, 11). This was not the original OS on the machine I guess. As I (unfortunately) sometime have to use Windows at work, I just reduced the partition and installed Linux beside.
The other day, I noticed that the M$ stuff refused to update. It was telling me that my OS (Windows 11) was no more supported, and that if I wanted to continue to use WindowsI had to install... Windows 11.
As far as I am concerned, for what I do with Windows, I'd happily stay with Windows 10. I still have a machine running Windows 7, never had a problem since support stopped. But of course I'm not surfing the web with it...
Thierry