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Welcome to the year of Linux on the (older) desktops?

That's what I'll likely end up doing with my desktop. Not immediately, but in a couple years when Windows 10 is EOL. Microsoft is worlds better than Apple when it comes to supporting older hardware/software but this is still unacceptable. New machines are better but the improvement is much more incremental than it used to be.

Cutting off anything earlier than an 8th gen Intel CPU is hardly "worlds better than Apple".

Three year old PCs that can't run the current version of Windows? That's just crazy.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-11-leaves-computer...

Windows 10 is still going to be supported until 2025. That's a full ten years after it's initial release. How much longer do you think Apple is going to support Intel Macs now that they're releasing them with ARM chips? I had a Core 2 Duo Macbook once upon a time that got left in the dust less than five years after it was released because Apple didn't feel like supporting it anymore.

>How much longer do you think Apple is going to support Intel Macs now that they're releasing them with ARM chips?

The next version of MacOS is slated to still work on 8 year old Intel Macs.

The next version of Windows is going to cut off machines less than half as old.

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