Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. If you bought your computer after 2010, there’s most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don’t have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help! Find someone to help you.
Just remember that there’s always LTSC if Linux doesn’t work out for him.
If we’re talking windows LTSC, there’s no way you’d get my dad to buy into it. It’d probably be easier for both of us, but what happens after LTSC ends? It’s just delaying the inevitable, unless he gets a new laptop running 11, which I doubt he’ll do for as long as he can use his current laptop.