Five questions · nothing leaves your browser
What should you actually do?
Answer five questions about how you really use your PC and we’ll give you a specific recommendation — with the steps to follow. Sometimes the answer is “do almost nothing”, and when it is, we’ll say so.
How this works
The tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored, and there’s no email form at the end. Your answers disappear the moment you close the tab.
The recommendations follow a few firm rules. Hard blockers override preferences — if you need software that genuinely doesn’t exist on another platform, we’ll tell you to stay on Windows even if you’d prefer otherwise, because that’s the true answer. And the free option is always mentioned first where it applies.
If you haven’t enrolled in ESU, your Windows 10 PC is receiving no security patches right now. Enrolling is free for most people and takes about five minutes. It’s worth doing before you decide anything else — it costs nothing and removes the time pressure entirely. Here’s how.
The questions, and why we ask them
| Question | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 eligibility | If your PC is eligible, the free upgrade is usually the simplest path. If it isn’t, that’s what opens up the other options. |
| Software you rely on | The single biggest determinant. Macro-heavy Excel, Adobe, QuickBooks Desktop, Access and industry software are genuine blockers, not inconveniences. |
| Gaming | Competitive multiplayer with kernel-level anti-cheat cannot work on Mac or Linux by any route. Single-player is a completely different picture. |
| Budget | There is a genuinely free path. We won’t recommend spending unless there’s a reason. |
| Appetite for change | Changes the answer more than anything else. Wanting things to stay familiar is a legitimate requirement, not a failing. |