Comment on Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025
S410@kbin.social 11 months agoIt's not really comparable to the way Windows versioning works. Releases of distros like Debian are closer to Service Packs on Windows: they're just a bunch of updates bundled together.
Alternatively, you can use Debian Sid or Arch, for example, and get all the changes as they're being made. That way, you get a lot of smaller updates a lot more often.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Whatever you want to call it, version or service pack, the point is that you're going to need to be using a relatively recent one to get that free support.
S410@kbin.social 11 months ago
You do, in fact, need to accept support to benefit from it. Those releases are the support. They are the updates.
Sometimes people or companies retire their distros (e.g. Mandriva), or just do stupid decisions that piss of their users (CentOS) and force the users to switch to a different distro. This, however, is extremely rare. Microsoft do that on a schedule.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
So update to Windows 11, then. This is how Microsoft has always operated, they're doing this on their usual schedule.
S410@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can use Debian Sid, for example. That way, instead of waiting for a bunch of updates to install them as one big upgrade, you, basically, always have the last version. You don't get those big upgrades at all, this way.
That's not possible with Windows. Even if you were to install every update that comes out, you wouldn't end up with a system that's somewhere between Windows 10 and Windows 11. You're forced into a major upgrade.