Cybersecurity firm ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or Linux to avoid a “security fiasco” as the 10-year-old operating system nears the end of support in October 2025.
“It’s five minutes to twelve to avoid a security fiasco for 2025,” explains ESET security expert Thorsten Urbanski.
How does this work?
Depends on your distros documentation, but essentially it verifies your UEFI, OS kernel, and other boot processes haven’t been tampered with based on cryptographic signatures. Its really a neat setup.