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From: =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>
Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
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Le 18-01-2025, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> a écrit :
> On 1/18/25 4:08 PM, DFS wrote:
>> On 1/18/2025 1:07 PM, Joel wrote:
>>> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I reject the Win platform as a dead end.
>>>>
>>>> Windows will long outlive you and all the other doomsday cola advocates.
>>>
>>>
>>> Explain how to keep up with demands on hardware without replacing
>>> motherboard every three years.  "Don't upgrade to Win12" only supports
>>> my point.
>> 
>> 
>> Total absurd bullshit.
>> 
>> You have NEVER needed to upgrade/replace your mobo every 3 years for a 
>> new version of Windows.
>> 
>> As I've requested several times, make sure to keep your current hardware 
>> around so I can rub your Linuxy face in it when Win13 installs and runs 
>> just fine on it.
>
> I have to agree with you here. There was pressure to buy new hardware 
> every two or three years back in the 90s, but hardware nowadays easily 
> goes a decade with the original operating system on it.

Except now Microsoft request people to update to the last available
version of Windows. Which is not always possible due to hardware
requirements.

> However, Windows 
> in that time will become unbearably slow for most users since they 
> usually have no idea how to maintain it. Linux, for its part, will be 
> just as fast ten years down the line as it was on day one.

That's another subject, but yes.

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