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FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year agoWhatever 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year ago
And that's the way Windows' patches and updates have always worked. This isn't some amazing new twist that Microsoft has thrown at us. If I'd bought Windows 10 ten years ago, I would have bought it with the full knowledge that at some point it'll no longer be updatable without it turning into Windows 11.
If this is a fundamental obstacle to you then you should never have bought Windows in the first place. It's like buying a gasoline-powered car and then exclaiming "this is bullshit!" When it comes time to fill the tank.