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This does happen with computers. Windows 8.1 stopped getting support in January. There are lots of computers that don’t meet requirements for Windows 10. The ti
by ianburrell 4y ago
This does happen with computers. Windows 8.1 stopped getting support in January. There are lots of computers that don’t meet requirements for Windows 10. The timeframe is much longer than smartphones. Linux is special case that low requirements mean works on anything and is kept updated for everyone. But Linux distributions do stop supporting old releases, but the new release works for a long time.
- saurik 4y agoThe point was that those old computers aren't locked into running Windows and so you can install Linux on them and keep using them for something instead of chucking them in the garbage pile; the same is not true of many phones and is certainly not true of an iPhone.
- lukas099 4y agoIt happens at the operating system level, but on a desktop computer the hardware is not inexorably tied to the OS. When Windows stops supporting 8.1, you can easily install Linux.