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I haven't used anything but linux on a personal machine in a decade.

When did Windows licenses stop being for the life of the machine?

Windows won’t stop functioning, it just stops receiving updates. Win10 machines will still work, and you can reinstall win10 if you like.

In practice, what usually seems to happen is Microsoft will begrudgingly extend security updates for a few years after official EOS, because most people won’t switch over that quickly and having all those machines with unpatched vulnerabilities would be a bigger pain that potentially more expensive than just keeping on for a few more years.

Windows 10 EOL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

Also a lot of very capable machines cannot run Windows 11.

I have a windows machine (windows 10) that I will never upgrade to windows 11, that’s the end of the line for me as far as Windows goes. I also have an old laptop that still runs windows XP, I turn on once in a while but I do keep it offline.

At work windows reigns. Im not looking forward to but soon they’ll install windows 11 on our dev machines. I’m really not looking forward to that at all.

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