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Microsoft Is Giving Windows 10 Users Another Year of Security Updates. (www.pcmag.com)
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I bet they seen where people were switching to Linux. "Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) were supposed to end in October, but Microsoft now says the program will end on Oct. 12, 2027."

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[โ€“] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The main issue was the motherboard. It's too "new" and I ended up having to build a bunch of drivers to just get my computer to work exactly what Windows provided out the box.

Ok.. To be fair, the drivers for Windows are probably all third party drivers. HW companies tend not to provide standalone drivers for Linux - either they contribute specs and/or patches that get incorporated to mainline, or do squat and eventually someone will reverse engineer it and create a driver.

There is so much hate for Windows, but you can't beat their commitment to stability and backwards compatibility.

This isn't the problem you just described, ftr. Linux often has a delay in supporting the newest hardware, but then supports it well and for a long time. OSS in general is good at that.

For example: my Wacom tablet is no longer officially supported on Windows (by Wacom), while it works out of the box on Linux.

Another example: Windows 11 refuses older hardware - not backwards compatible.

If you are talking about software APIs, that's a different story. eg. There's not much point in targeting Linux native APIs for games, because wine usually works better.

[โ€“] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes for sure I had too new of a system and nobody has figured out the bugs yet. Most of this fault is from the hardware corps.

I think for a high performance late model Linux, this is too bleeding edge for Linux. Without HW support, new hardware simply isn't ready for production.

Maybe I'll wait a year or so and try again. Hopefully they work out the kinks.