Does anybody know how/whether this is going to affect hardware obsolescence?
I have no Idea.
But Linux might be a hardware obsolescence counter-mesure.
MS to update Windows every 3 years
Submitted 1 year ago by riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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HeavyMitchel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Number358@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think it’s going to change anything. Microsoft has been releasing windows every 3 years for a while.
- 1992 - windows 3.11
- 1995 - windows 95
- 1998 - windows 98
- 2001 - windows XP
- 2006 - windows Vista (bigger gap due to vista’s development being reset due to feature creep)
- 2009 - windows 7
- 2012 - windows 8
- 2015 - windows 10
- 2021 - windows 11
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who still uses Windows? I have to believe it’s either non tech people or people very new to computers. I haven’t even used it at work in over 15 years. Good riddance!
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Like 70% of the world still uses windows
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nobody cares what non tech users use as an OS. Nothing critical runs in Windows. Like, the Internet.
robotrash@lemmy.robotra.sh 1 year ago
I’m a sys admin that uses windows on my personal machine. I’m not trying to do more work on my own time.
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
😂😂 it’s always the windows users at the company that have problems and can’t get code to run locally, thus pushing a bunch of test failures into staging. Yet here we are, a bunch of enterprise Linux and Mac users pushing code that works because we can run it properly locally… even shaved one user in my team to switch from Windows to Mac and after the first month he was relieved everything just ran, and he had a real terminal …
If you’re just clicking buttons in a web browser, I’m sure Windows is just fine. For anything more than that, it’s a giant waste of time.
frazw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Many many people have no choice.
A number of software companies have software which has become industry standard and do not support windows. That means any new employees have been educated and trained in using that software. So to defy that , you are either the odd man or in the company, or the odd company out in the industry.
That causes you disadvantages of interoperability with colleagues or a need to train your new employees with skills that are typically only useful within your own company and delay the return on investment of your new hire which has financial implications.
Wine has come a long way but many industry standard softwares do not play nicely. E.g. Adobe software, autocad, solidworks. If you get it running, you are not guaranteed the next version will work and if your whole team upgrades except you, you might lose the ability to work with their files. Your boss may not be happy if you need to spent x hours or days getting up and running again because you had to upgrade from v21 to v22 and it didn’t work out of the box in wine.
Businesses need and require a different level of support vs home users so that issues can be fixed in a timely and reliable manner. Adding wine into the mix means every software problem now has potential causes not just in the software itself, but also in the wine setup.
So ultimately where no native application exists and no compatible application exists, wine is not yet an acceptable solution for business use except in very fringe cases. So that leaves virtual machines as a solution, but then you are running windows with extra support issues again. So why would you not just run windows.
I offer this answer as the reason windows is and will remain ubiquitous not as my own personal preferences or opinions.
I tried working in Linux for several months but I kept coming up against barriers that cost me time , solely because of my choice to use not use windows. When I encountered issues, it would not and could not help. In the end I deleted my Linux partition because I simply could not work with file formats colleagues were exchanging and I would have to switch to windows.
I’d you want windows gone, the only way is to convince large software companies to support other operating systems natively or for wine to reach 100% parity with the experience on windows. The former will only hassocks if there is a financial positive for the companies and the latter with likely never happen, or take a very long time due to windows being a moving target.
infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 year ago
I am not going to worry about it, sounds like a problem for my IT department since they are the ones who insist I use windows for work.
Me, I will be just fine on my Linux gaming PC.
atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The good thing abour Linux is if your distribution makes boneheaded decisions like MS, you can switch to another onw.