Seriously. My current Windows installs are >15 years old upgraded all the way back from Vista …
Switched to cachyos - I've spoken with at least 5 people who have had the same bsod after updates situation in the last 6 months. If windows at least embraced proper update techniques like with immutable Linux - and enough polish to make the random bsod loop after updates impossible to accur without hardware damage id likely go back for my gaming rig at least - but right now, it feels like garbage ngl
This happened to mine too. I suspect this might be the real cause for the blog post in question.
I've used Windows as my primary desktop for ~35 years and I do my absolute best to housekeep, but I still need to reinstall about once a year or so. I'm militant about installing almost nothing on my primary PC and putting all the janky apps on another PC via RDP too.
edit: oh, here it is!
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/can-upgrade-ms-dos-6-22-window...
Why wouldn't it still work?
The obvious reason is that Microsoft decided Windows 11 would not install on CPUs dating back beyond about 2017.
Last year I switched to NixOS and while my impression is that it's going to be much more stable even than Ubuntu, installation also only takes me 5 minutes. That is, 5 min until my system is in exactly the state I want, including installed software, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, desktop wallpaper, GUI theme, etc.
Of course I'm still on Windows 10 and will be for the foreseeable future.