[samus]

Windows 11 has the anti-feature of not supporting the old processor anymore. Who knows why. Could be anything from simplifying QA and maintenance effort to not being able to (or not willing to) implement a feature on the older platform.

Compared to that, I don't know of a platform Fedora has recently deprecated. Linux usually takes a really long time to deprecate and remove support for old hardware.

[handrous]

criddell is wondering what thing in common Fedora and Win11 had that made switching to either of them preferable to just sticking with Win10, I believe. As in: why not just stay on Win10, unless it was lacking something that Win11 and—apparently, if it was a viable alternative—Fedora have? What was the thing they both had that Win10 did not?

[BenjiWiebe]

I assumed they wanted their OS to keep getting updates and new features.

[criddell]

handrous explained my question exactly right.

Windows 10 is still supported until 2025 and nobody would be surprised if they extend it two more years. If I were setting up a new machine today, I would probably still install Windows 10. Anything new is an unknown from a security perspective.