Windows 11 received its September update on the 8th of this month, and within days Microsoft had acknowledged or investigated problems involving Remote Desktop, USB audio, Linux and WSL-based apps like Claude Cowork, and enterprise domain issues. Windows Latest also found File History failures, Explorer.exe crashes, and AMD GPU instability, with an emergency update following on September 14 that still did not fix everything.
This got us curious, and we looked back across the nine monthly updates released from January through September 2026 and, rather unsurprisingly, Windows 10 update history isn’t infected with nearly as many bugs as that of Windows 11.
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Of course, Windows 10 also isn’t getting nearly as much attention from Microsoft, but that’s kind of the whole point, isn’t it? Whenever Microsoft touches something, especially over the last 5 years or so, it’s one cascade of failures after the other, eroding trust in Windows’ updates even more (if that’s even possible). In that light, why would you want to use Windows 11 and all the headaches that come with it, when Windows 10 is right there, still being supported, albeit without the latest bells and whistles that only seem to break Windows 11 anyway?
If you really do need or want to use Windows, consider switching back to Windows 10 whenever the usual Windows reinstallation time draws near. You won’t lose much, but will gain quite a bit in the process. Of course, this won’t be a responsible or usable choice forever, but at this point in time, I definitely think it’s the optimal choice for quite a few people.
Only Win10 Enterprise (and IoT) LTS versions are supported. Just ditch Windows, far more effective.
I run Linux on three desktops and a laptop, and I am perfectly happy with them. I wish I COULD ditch Windows completely, but unfortunately I have two applications that just will not run on Linux and have no reasonable replacements. For those I have a Windows 11 laptop and installations of VM on two of the Linux machines running Windows 10.
The normal versions of windows 10 are supported until oktober 2027 over in Europe.
FireWave,
Indeed, the official end of life for consumer versions of windows 10 was october 14, 2025. However the update catalog still lists security updates…
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=%2B%22Windows+10%22&p=0
I’m not sure if these are being applied to consumer versions of windows 10? Can anyone confirm this?
Some people are entirely sufficient on linux and that’s great. But some of us still depend on windows for edge cases.
I’ve migrated my personal computers to linux long ago, but still depend on windows for a lot of work and some applications that aren’t available on linux. For example I have an oscilloscope that only works with windows. I took a gamble that I might be able to get it to work with WINE, but this didn’t work.
As far as win10 not breaking as much, this kind of makes sense. Fewer updates = fewer opportunities to break. That said, obviously the quality of updates is important too.
Yea.. The quality of updates is everything, really. Their update quality is a good 90% miss rate, so not getting updates is actually a feature at this point. It’s not really new: there were Windows 7 updates that didn’t actually say what they were supposed to fix, but rendered the computer of everyone that installed them unbootable.
I feel like the attention coming to it these days is a mixture of alternatives (well, the exactly one alternative, if I’m being honest) getting good enough and the fact that the bad updates are no longer mixed in with features people want.
Not only do they not add anything anybody wants, they add only features users actively despise, and their response to backlash on these features is usually to remove the ability to opt out
Yes, my personal Windows 10 desktop is still getting monthly updates through extended support.
It’s not so easy as just running an older version. While technically these versions are “still supported” that extends only to fixing directly exploitable vulnerabilities.
You don’t get any modern security features, for instance there is no post-quantum key exchange support in windows 10 if you’re using the built in crypto functions. Any other new features will also be missing, making it increasingly risky as time goes on.