> Again, is there a platform other than Linux that isn't similar? Windows. If you buy a Windows computer it will retain software support for many, many years -

> Again, is there a platform other than Linux that isn't similar? Windows. If you buy a Windows computer it will retain software support for many, many years - and support for new versions is never arbitrarily withdrawn based on device age. The only restriction I know of in the Windows 11 migration was that it would insist on TPM2 support (and for very good reasons). Macs do have Asahi Linux in the pipeline, but the arbitrary withdrawal of support on the basis of not having bought an entirely new computer from the same vendor in X number of years is really anti-consumer, and I’m surprised it’s not illegal. Even in the Windows world, if a new major version comes out you could pay to upgrade (even though I don’t believe end users have had to do that for several major releases now).