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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (24 children)

How much ewaste has Microsoft caused just by wanting to sell more copies of the next version of windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

both

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