<story><title>Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InitialLastName</author><text>That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.</text></item><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Unfortunately, there&amp;#x27;s one very big reason you&amp;#x27;ll need Windows 11: that Windows 10 won&amp;#x27;t get security updates forever. After October 14th, 2025, you&amp;#x27;ll need to &amp;quot;upgrade&amp;quot; to it to stay secure.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>So far in the last year or so, I&amp;#x27;ve heard 0 reasons why I&amp;#x27;d even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn&amp;#x27;t even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArnoVW</author><text>After 30 years on Windows I switched this month to Linux, for pretty much the same reason. It&amp;#x27;s great. And it feels so &lt;i&gt;fast&lt;/i&gt;. All my software exists natively on Linux (minecraft and game emulators for the kids, KNIME, Intellij, and Blender is a lot faster on Linux). No Word or PowerPoint, but there&amp;#x27;s Libre Office and it&amp;#x27;s good enough.&lt;p&gt;Who&amp;#x27;d have thought that 2021 would be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not because it has gradually improved (it has), but because the alternative has declined so much.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InitialLastName</author><text>That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.</text></item><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Unfortunately, there&amp;#x27;s one very big reason you&amp;#x27;ll need Windows 11: that Windows 10 won&amp;#x27;t get security updates forever. After October 14th, 2025, you&amp;#x27;ll need to &amp;quot;upgrade&amp;quot; to it to stay secure.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>So far in the last year or so, I&amp;#x27;ve heard 0 reasons why I&amp;#x27;d even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn&amp;#x27;t even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willis936</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before.  We&amp;#x27;re still on Windows.</text></comment>