@icedquinn @beardalaxy
Nobody is asking you to do anything. Win10 is still supported with updates until 2025 at least, and you'll still be able to run it well after too. Going by past experiences, Microsoft might extend support till something like 2030 for businesses.

@icedquinn @alyx @beardalaxy
*during a global chip shortage

@icedquinn @alyx @beardalaxy literally netbsd supports computers and architectures I've never even heard of, openbsd still runs on powerpc, people still maintain linux builds for ps3 (and ps2), if it works why can't mainstream os builders lower their requirements to a point below planned obsolescence? I don't see a really good reason someone couldn't have a 4th/5th gen intel or an amd fx and run win10 with games (with a reasonably modern gfx card) but they've put so much extra crap into the OS that it hardly runs on good systems, let alone an old system.

M$ devs fell into the same trap web devs and every other dev field fell into: as hardware gets better, so do os requirements, therefore we can get away with adding bloat.

@coyote @alyx @beardalaxy MS is a global, government protected monopoly. why do a good job at anything?

@coyote @icedquinn @alyx @beardalaxy Why would MS? That would cost them sales.

On a side note, I found your post through fedilogue.com :)

@fikran @alyx @beardalaxy @icedquinn it would cost them sales how? How is supporting only the past two/three years of hardware releases getting them more software sales?

That website will not load for me

@coyote @alyx @beardalaxy @icedquinn Because people tend not to buy Windows, they buy new hardware.