• @ArgentRaven
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    184 days ago

    They know that killing support early makes it easier for people to just buy new hardware, which likely has new windows purchased/included. More money, less effort. And since most environments are locked into the platform, no one gets away.

    I’m already moving a lot of hardware to Linux, but I’ll be damned if I give MS any more money.

    • @D1G17AL
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      104 days ago

      Linux Mint has been a massive upgrade over Windows 10/11 for me. It also still has support for my hardware. Running a 4770k Haswell processor from Intel. Just got forced into buying a new gpu in the form of an RX 6650 from AMD. All together for gaming and general purpose usage Linux is effectively on par with Windows now. Steam have done a lot of work for gamers to make it easier to game on non-windows platforms.

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        -64 days ago

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      -34 days ago

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