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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: 17 Feb 2025 18:52:34 GMT
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:24:25 -0500, Joel wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>>> https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-removes-windows-11-24h2-
official-
>>support-on-8th-9th-10th-gen-intel-cpus/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So, I can still boot Win11 on my box, because it's grandfathered in,
>>> from 2021.  OK.  Great.  Nah, I'll stick with Linux, thanks.
>>
>>I guess that means there is no hope for the 4th gen i5 powering my
>>Fedora box?
> 
> 
> Just stick with Fedora. :)

I plan to. I may even participate in the test day.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-02-17_WSL

The interesting part is a new WSL feature:

wsl --install --from-file .\path\to\Fedora.tar.xz

Previously the Linux versions came from the Microsoft Store. Now you can 
install from a tarball.