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It makes some sense for business & enterprise stuff, but not for household/consumer computers & devices. That's just rent-seeking and forced obsolescence. There is no good reason a home computer from the past fifteen years should have security patches withheld because the manufacturers want people to throw them away and buy and brand new ones.
I kind of get it, but I feel like even in a b2b context you shouldn't be allowed to charge a subscription for something as low level as the OS.
Now if Microsoft wants to offer paid support subscriptions for business customers (they might already do, I didn't look) that I would be fine with.
Of course, businesses would just pivot in the other direction and speed up the release cycle to every year or two, making smaller and smaller improvements. No system will be perfect. I just hope we get to a better solution than "constant vigilance" eventually, whatever it looks like.
with 4+ gb ram, even a c2d or og dual core athlon is usable 'enough' today for many tasks, including most needs of home users. sata ssd is inexpensive upgrade to counter the increased bloat that slows down hdd.
15 years of f they brought their machine on release day
Win11 was released in 2021 (and you never want day 1 so wait at least 6months) so if you got your machine so you could have got a new win10 machine in 2022 so 8 years
And yet you can take this "ancient piece of garbage" install some Linux distro and be amazed how well it still runs. It won't become a gaming machine but 80% of people just need a web browser anyway (and that mean security patches).