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whileloop@lemmy.world 8 months agoAll of them!
Linux and Linux distros are generally designed to be hardware-agnostic, and generally works just fine on very old components. I’m currently running the current version of Ubuntu on a used U1 server from ~2013, no issues, no headaches. It just works. Grab any Windows PC from the last 20 years, you won’t have any compatibility issues running most Linux distros, though some distros might expect more performance. Linux Mint is fairly lightweight.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And you can install those distros on a Chromebook, no? You can probably use CloudReady after ChromeOS no longer supports it after 10 years.
Debian LTS for stable releases is 5 years
wiki.debian.org/LTS
Ubuntu LTS is 5 years
ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Fedora is 13 months
docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
LTS just means staying on the same release and guaranteed support for that time which is important for businesses. As a consumer you can always just do a release upgrade.
Since most businesses rely on Windows anyway, that's pretty much irrelevant for this discussion. They cannot use Chromebooks either.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The original assertion was that a Chromebook becomes useless ewaste when the software updates stop. But as of today Chromeos gets software updates for longer than any Linux distro major release (10 years ChromeOS vs 5 years for Linux). You can install Linux on that Chromebook after Google stops supporting it just the same as the Windows laptop after Dell stops supporting it. And there’s CloudReady and Chromium. Theyre not ewaste without Google updates, you have options.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
But contrary to Linux or even Windows (unless they pull some hardware requirement shit again) you need to switch to another OS and not simply do a release upgrade.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You aren’t understanding.
That’s support for one specific software release.
It’d be like saying Apple supports iPhones for 1 year not 5+ years, because they’re only on iOS version X for one year.
Linux devices get updates literally forever.