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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: 17 Feb 2025 05:08:20 GMT
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:49:43 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-02-16 4:38 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:49 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Have you ever considered that an operating system could offer layers
>>> of functionality? For example, a 286 could run Windows 3.0, but if you
>>> wanted the enhanced features, you needed a 386. Why can't it be that
>>> way with Windows again?
>> 
>> So a software company would have to maintain, build, and test several
>> branches, some of which would have minimal sales? No thanks.
> 
> Point made. I guess those unwilling to upgrade could always fall back to
> Linux.

Precisely. My 4th gen i5 is not a candidate for Windows 11 but it does 
fine with Fedora 41.  It started life as Windows 7; I don't know how far 
it would have made it as a Windows box. 10?