• S410
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    Literally most of them. All the big ones like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc. are 10+ years old and still get updates pretty much daily.

    Debian had its 30th birthday back in September, actually.

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      • S410
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        It’s not really comparable to the way Windows versioning works. Releases of distros like Debian are closer to Service Packs on Windows: they’re just a bunch of updates bundled together.
        Alternatively, you can use Debian Sid or Arch, for example, and get all the changes as they’re being made. That way, you get a lot of smaller updates a lot more often.

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          Whatever you want to call it, version or service pack, the point is that you’re going to need to be using a relatively recent one to get that free support.

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            You do, in fact, need to accept support to benefit from it. Those releases are the support. Support = updates!

            Sometimes people or companies retire their distros (e.g. Mandriva), or just do stupid decisions that piss of their users (CentOS) and force the users to switch to a different distro. This, however, is extremely rare. Microsoft do that on a schedule.

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              31 year ago

              So update to Windows 11, then. This is how Microsoft has always operated, they’re doing this on their usual schedule.

              • S410
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                You can use Debian Sid, for example. That way, instead of waiting for a bunch of updates to install them as one big upgrade, you, basically, always have the last version. You don’t get those big upgrades at all, this way.

                That’s not possible with Windows. Even if you were to install every update that comes out, you wouldn’t end up with a system that’s somewhere between Windows 10 and Windows 11. You’re forced into a major upgrade.

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                  And that’s the way Windows’ patches and updates have always worked. This isn’t some amazing new twist that Microsoft has thrown at us. If I’d bought Windows 10 ten years ago, I would have bought it with the full knowledge that at some point it’ll no longer be updatable without it turning into Windows 11.

                  If this is a fundamental obstacle to you then you should never have bought Windows in the first place. It’s like buying a gasoline-powered car and then exclaiming “this is bullshit!” When it comes time to fill the tank.

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                    01 year ago

                    I’ve, in fact, never purchased Windows willingly.

                    The only few times I (technically) did were with laptops and small form factor computers which were only available with it pre-installed.

                    This, honestly, should not be legal.