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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 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)

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] M600@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Apple hardware would like to have a word with you.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm counting that–which means I also have to count Windows 10 IoT, whose support ends in 2032. XP still wins!

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world -5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago

windows 11 is not only about irreversible breaking changes

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

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

People hate upgrades.