Comments by "OpenGL4ever" (@OpenGL4ever) on "Ask Leo!" channel.

  1. Support for Windows 10 officially ends on October 14, 2025. From then on, security patches will only be available for paying customers. And security patches, as well as system requirements for future Windows 11-only software, are likely to be the main reason for switching.
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  2. The hardware requirements for Windows 11 could be technically enforced at any time via an update. There will therefore never be any certainty. In my humble opinion Microsoft will not want to lose customers to competing operating systems such as Linux and as long as this is perceived as a threat from Microsoft's point of view, this workaround will probably exist.
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  3. If you have a 32 operating system running and even a 32 bit processor the 64 bit ones will be of no use, because the CPU can't use them.
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