You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensiv

You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensive upgrades. For various reasons many people love the latter. I also don't mind having excuses to upgrade my hardware but I dislike being driven forward by planned obsolescence, which is basically how every piece of Apple hardware I've ever owned has ended its life. Exploding batteries. Horrible one-way OS upgrades. I thought it'd be helpful for art and music software, but I found the opposite. I thought it'd be good for programming but had to invest absurd amounts of time in installing basic open source development software. Never again.