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Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's comparing apples to oranges, that said, the current version of Debian is much closer to the UX of Debian 6 than windows 11 is to windows 10

If the point of windows is you're paying for an operating system and should then have better support than a free alternative, they should be able to push security updates, especially if they're already committed to ensuring old windows app can still run inside new windows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mac OS is Apple to oranges against windows when it comes to OS support?

Conveniently skipped that part and focused on Debian....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No, it's not apples to oranges because Mac and windows are both paid support.

If you want to compare apples to apples, then sure, Mac is better than windows. That's a low bar to beat though. I was comparing apples to oranges, which was a comparison in paid vs free support.

But yes, macs desktop environment and user experience hasn't taken half as much of a dump as windows. But they're also based on Linux, and don't have to make the same commitments windows does

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

macOS is not based on Linux, it's based on FreeBSD (and other BSD) userspace and the Mach kernel. AFAIK, there isn't any Linux code there.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

They did provide security updates for several years longer than any competitor. Even (or especially depending on your point of view) for a company like Microsoft a user shouldn't expect updates indefinitely at least not for the normal retail price.

And to be clear: I also don't want to blame any of the named Linux distros. I recently migrated an old CentOS 6 server and it was about time. Sure there were still some security updates but several software components hadn't received updates for years and there were a lot of workarounds necessary to keep the thing in a somewhat decent and modern state.