I’ve never said this… ever. Maybe you should switch to Linux. Ugh! There I’ve said it.
I really don’t see what the stink is all about. Yes there is a lot of junk in 10 and 11 when you click start. Just get rid of it. Uninstall Teams, Skype, Weather, Highlights, etc, etc, etc. Don’t use Edge. Install Firefox. My 11 looks like my 10 and my 10 looks like my 7 did. Agreed why is not a simple Windows available.
Windows has about 73% of desktop OS usage and 7, 8, 8.1, and XP have about 4% of that. So that’s 3% of all desktop OS usage. I have no idea what absolute number this represents but not a lot. Do we really think they are going to take time and money to retro-fit security updates for that number. Would you if you owned 73% of desktops? I bet AVs don’t support that 4%. Less and less browsers support the 4%.
Search for desktop OS usage stats using DuckDuck. There will be a site near the top of the results with the word statcounter in the domain name. This is what I used for these numbers.
There is a link here where the writer projects the number of Tor Windows 7 users and I quote: “then we’re looking at roughly 66,000 Tor Browser users still on Windows 7” And when Mozilla stops supporting 7 then Tor will follow he says.
There are technical issues with security updates not requiring later Windows. I think it is in that thread I posted. All done by volunteers. Hmmn all that work for 66,000 users world wide. I would prefer donating my time to the masses of my users.
How about those 33 people still using Windows 98