• AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    How much ewaste has Microsoft caused just by wanting to sell more copies of the next version of windows.

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      Windows 10 was released ten years ago. How long do you think they should provide support? For comparison, Redhat gives 10 years for LTS releases, and Ubuntu and Linux Mint give 5 years. Extended support beyond the LTS period requires a paid subscription, similar to Windows.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        18 hours ago

        On a machine that can run it. If you have one of the machines that are the subject of this article, the only upgrade path is to buy a new one, for which Microsoft takes a healthy OEM fee for including Win11. You can easily see that cost on devices like the Legion Go S that cost significantly less for the SteamOS version.