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by Moru 281 days ago
Windows has always been backward compatible with old hardware. There has never been a big problem where you couldn't just upgrade to next version on the same computer. This big jump is not a good one for MS, it is locking out a lot of people that would be customers and are now getting Linux Mint instead. I have several friends that are non-techies and installed Mint on their own without any problems. No support needed even, nothing close to how they need support for Windows. They have dualboot so their old games work on Windows and everything else on Linux. Sooner or later that will be gaming on Linux and Windows never get booted again.
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"Windows has always been backward compatible with old hardware."

mac os always have been backward compatible with old intel hardware, nothing changes or stopping you to still use your old intel mac either

"Sooner or later that will be gaming on Linux and Windows never get booted again."

that never gonna happen