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Ubuntu LTS releases lose support after 5 years. Windows 7 lost support after 10 years. You can freely upgrade ubuntu, but you can also freely upgrade windows, a
by Joeri 7y ago
Ubuntu LTS releases lose support after 5 years. Windows 7 lost support after 10 years. You can freely upgrade ubuntu, but you can also freely upgrade windows, and windows feature releases remain supported for about as long as ubuntu LTS releases.
Also, windows has very good backwards compat for binaries, you can run decades-old binaries.
- toastal 7y agoYou should encourage users to upgrade by not having history of things breaking -- it used to not be free, and now it's not free as in freedom with all the tracking built in to the OS. I upgrade my Linux machine multiple times a day because I'm confident that things will be smooth and even when they're not it's usually one package at a time instead of the UI and all APIs changing on a monolithic release cycle. New versions fix up bugs and security, so we shouldn't be rolling with out-of-date software.