• b_van_b@programming.dev
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    8 hours 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.

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      14 minutes ago

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

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        33 minutes 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.