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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

This is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago (2021-04-29)

Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks (2016-12-01)

Or Android 6.0 (2018-08-01)

Or Debian 8 "Jessie" (2018-06-17)

Or Linux Mint 17 (2019-07-01)

Or Fedora 23 (2016-12-20)

Or Slackware 14.1 (2024-01-01)

Of all of these, not even Slackware comes close to how long Microsoft has supported Windows 10 post release (2015)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros did not cost any money to the users, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I migrated someone running mission critical software off of CentOS 6 this year.

People hate upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I'll be impressed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

2014.... the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but you don't migrate to Windows 11 from those.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

You do migrate to newer versions of those ossses with new de and backend lib versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spending another week chasing down broken stuff and learning how different things work now.

Which is about the same

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

windows 11 is not only about irreversible breaking changes