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Once it goes eol, get it off the network. But lots of other good ideas already in here.
quick question - what the hell do you do with a modern computer without internet access anyways?
Local services only
It really needs to be made louder that if you are stuck on 10 that you should not let it have internet access
Unless you switch to IoT LTSC, which will continue to get security updates until 2032. It's kinda bullshit that they're still making the security patches and then just refusing to give them to consumer 10 users.
Your average user should not be on that
I guess I sort of agree? It's a bit tricky to get it set up, for sure. Even just installing windows is probably beyond the average user, and this has a few more quirks and gotchas than normal.
E.g., in IoT LTSC 11 (which is what I'm actually currently using), when you connect a controller, it'll bring up an error message about not having a handler for ms-gamebar, and fixing that calls for regedit. (One it's fixed, though, it stays fixed.) It also got itself into a bit of a weird state during the initial installation where it wanted me to log in with a kind of account I don't have, and while I was able to bypass that, I don't think I did it in quite the right way, and it broke something in the install and I had to do an in-place repair install to fix it before it would install certain updates successfully. It was also failing to download the in-place repair install, so I had to look up how to do it manually using the install DVD I'd burned previously. But that fixed it, and it's been fine since.
So, yeah, it's got pitfalls and quirks and glitches. That's also been my experience with other Windows installs, though, so it didn't seem all that different in general.
But once you get those initial hurdles sorted out, it's really just like normal Windows. Better, even, since it doesn't have all the cruft built into it, like Cortana, Teams, OneDrive, start menu ads, nag screens about upgrading to 11, the Microsoft Store, etc. (Though you can add most of those if you really want them.) My aging parents aren't willing to upgrade to 11 because they're afraid too many things will have changed, and I'm thinking I'll probably switch them to 10 IoT LTSC instead. I'll just have to be careful to make sure everything they want to do works before I leave them to it. It still gets monthly security updates and everything.
They are selling them. Look into ESU (Extended Security Updates).
$30 a year.