No, Windows 11 is not Forcing You to Buy a New Machine

Ask Leo! April 2, 2025
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✔️ The most common complaint about Windows 11 is based on a fallacy. ✔️ Keep your Windows 10 computer Windows 11’s hardware requirements aren’t a conspiracy to force new computer sales. You don’t have to upgrade or throw away your old machine. Windows 10 will keep running after support ends, and you can stay secure with good practices and extended updates, or even switch to Linux. Panic, or even irritation, is not required. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/179314 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ What Happens at Windows 10 End of Support? ▶ https://youtu.be/H5eWPeVjQHs Chapters 0:00 Forcing You to Buy a New Machine? 1:15 One option is to keep your old machine 3:40 Get Extended Security Updates 4:40 You could install Linux 5:45 Hack Windows 11 for your computer 6:50 Choose to Switch hardware ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #windows11 #support

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