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[-] b_van_b@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Windows 10 was released ten years ago. How long do you think they should provide support? For comparison, Redhat gives 10 years for LTS releases, and Ubuntu and Linux Mint give 5 years. Extended support beyond the LTS period requires a paid subscription, similar to Windows.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 hours ago

It's more that the hardware requirements for 11 are pretty arbitrary and not based on how powerful it is. My old PC can't run it, not that I care to in the first place. But it's much more powerful than my work laptop that can and does run win11, though not by my choice.

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago

They said when they launched windows 10 it would be "last version"

[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

The counter is that all of a sudden instead of windows 10 it was 10 from 2020, then 10 from 2022 and so on. Instead of only being the last version it became a succession of short lived versions that people still weren't upgrading.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 7 points 18 hours ago

They don't need to support Windows 10, they just need to not artificially block the installation of Windows 11 on old hardware.

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 hours ago

Is it an artifical block or is windows 11 just so bloated that it can't run correctly on older hardware?

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