• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    You’re safer on win10 even after they stop supporting it than win11.

    That’s just not true. An actual spectre/meltdown/etc exploit is much less likely than you run-of-the-mill virus or whatever, so if you’re not getting security updates to your OS and apps, you’ll be much worse off than the fringe case of a theoretical attack.

    So that part is just flat out wrong.

    Either upgrade your hardware or run Linux, don’t run outdated software on anything that touches the internet.

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      25 days ago

      Security updates means patches against exploits like spectre/meltdown, not antivirus updates. You’ll still be getting antivirus updates on windows 10.

      Which means that until such an exploit has been discovered, windows 10 would be safer than windows 11 since windows 10 does have a countermeasure against spectre/meltdown while windows 11 doesn’t. Windows 11 literally does not provide security updates to unsupported computers, and the exploits are already known.