Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
 From The Landfill
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:35:25 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <103q1oh$15ef4$1@dont-email.me>
References: <103i58h$3340l$1@dont-email.me>
 <0001HW.2E0ED9C9000B5EAF70000A26338F@news.supernews.com>
 <103n7lb$dqtr$5@dont-email.me> <103osrl$su58$2@dont-email.me>
 <103ps9o$142ke$9@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:35:31 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="43e52faead372cccb93a44f9731d63a0";
	logging-data="1227236"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+GJABgsYDhR+jB19UA/GTQC8SWCf8JkUs="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101
 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.21
Cancel-Lock: sha1:2FTX7lQ18R1eU9JTAZ6sVz//yRA=
In-Reply-To: <103ps9o$142ke$9@dont-email.me>

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote on 6/28/2025 6:02 PM:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:05:41 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to obsolete,
>>> unsupported software?
>>
>> This is a common scenario. Significant piece of kit requires a PC to
>> run it. The PC is simply required to host proprietary
>> command-and-control software which comes with a few years' of
>> support included. Kit manufacturer launches new version of software
>> which costs many thousands and has no benefit to the user over the
>> previous fully working one. Especially as the business has optimised
>> their workflows with it and don't want to have to do that all over
>> again.
> 
> Surely if the hardware was that expensive and that important, and that
> long-lived, the business would have been wise to lock in a support
> contract for the expected useful life of the machine, that would
> include any necessary software updates?
> 
> To do otherwise would not seem to be a recipe for long-term success
> ...
> 

Lawrence, relax a few minutes.  Sit down, pour yourself a drink, and 
tell us more about your Linux machines. Take it slow, because some are 
not as expert as yourself.

We will learn a lot, and you will get a lot off your chest.

Thanks.