Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• iesha_256@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this isn’t about the age of the OS, it’s the age of the device. I can install linux on a device from 20 years ago if not more.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ahh, so the win11 arbitrary hardware requirements bullshit

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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know. just the other day somebody on lemmy was asking about installing a 32bit distro on an old netbook and the majority of comments were discussing whether there was any practical reason for distros to continue 32-bit support.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s unfortunate, but still leaves you 20 years worth of devices if they drop 32-bit.

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• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah but you don’t pay 150euros for it + all the ads and stuffs

  but yeah, I don’t see the point of this, it’s clearly aimed at Microsoft, and at this point alternative solutions exist

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I almost feel like the compromise we will eventually land on is that if an OS maker like Microsoft wants to continue advertising on your OS they have to take some liability for its security.

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• ratten@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These multi-billion dollar corporations have more than enough resources to provide updates for 15 years.

  There’s nothing insane about it, unless you’ve been conditioned to live vicariously through business owners.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure postmarketOS isn’t made by a multi-billion dollar corporation. Such a requirement would mean ONLY multi-billion dollar corporations can release an operating system. You do not want to give them that power.

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    • ratten@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it’s free software, then anyone can implement the fixes themselves.

      Doing so with proprietary software would be illegal.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are companies still running XP.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They didn’t say you could do version upgrade…

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