lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoMicrosoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another yearwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another yearwww.theverge.comlemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 days agoThis 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)
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-212 days agoTo 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.
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 days agoTo my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros did not cost any money to the users, either.
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)
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.
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros did not cost any money to the users, either.
32-bit -> 64-bit