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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] b_van_b@programming.dev 2 points 4 months 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.

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months 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.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months 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.