• djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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    24 hours ago

    How many 8 year old computers still function halfway decently? Most of those people are probably due for an upgrade whether they know it or not.

    Even if we go with this popular narrative, no one is actually going to immediately run to throw out their working Win10 PC when Microsoft cuts off updates. They’ll just continue to use it insecurely. Just like millions of people did and still do with Win7.

    This is the issue with using a proprietary operating system in general. Eventually they’ll cut you off arbitrarily because there’s a profit motive to do so. Relying on them to keep your system updated and secured indefinitely is a naive prospect to begin with.