2 things
i will not upgrade
when the date comes what should i expect with my pc? will it act the same as it would?
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As someone who supports their parents' computers, there are two phases:
Early phase: In the immediate end of support, there's honestly not a whole lot of difference from the perspective of the user (and it's honestly better if we're talking about Windows 10 since Windows 11 is still a dumpster fire and overall worse than Windows 10). Yes, your device will be more vulnerable, but there will be unofficial patches floating around, and you'll mostly be fine if you keep up with development of those unofficial patches. The real dividing line is when your browsers no longer upgrade because they detect an older version of Windows and that's when you hit the later phase.
Later phase: Once your browsers can no longer upgrade and you're stuck running out-of-date versions of Firefox/Chrome/Edge, that's when there's a massive degradation in user experience. Gradually, you're going to run into more websites that look off or have formatting issues or straight up can't even display their content. The straw that broke my parent's back was when their Windows 8 machine can no longer go to some bank website, and they couldn't go to the website because Edge couldn't/wouldn't upgrade past a certain version on Windows 8.
Take a Windows 7 diehard who hates Windows 8 onwards, doesn't want to blow their money on Apple products, and thinks Linux is only for nerds. The timeline is as follows:
tl;dr: Install Linux Mint.
hell yeah mint