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Windows 10's Extra Year of Updates Has a Catch (you pay for it after first year EU) (apertatube.net)
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[–] MicrowavedTea 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People are used to their workflows and windows makes it a big deal to update from one version to another. Especially if you've made particular setups or used hacks they're pretty much guaranteed to stop working. Linux doesn't usually do this but I'm getting the same issue with android where every update breaks something and it's worse because here there is no option to not upgrade.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Isn't Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it's more people that just like the OS because they're used to it, not that it'd actually break their workflows. They'd just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don't want to.

In thinking about this, I have come up with a couple of reasons to not upgrade OSs:

  • If the new OS costs money, like Windows used to, yeah I might not buy it if it isn't enough better. When my new laptop comes with it, I'm not going to go out of the way to downgrade it though.
  • If the only OS maker in town was a monopoly (but then again, if there was a monopoly, they'd probably force you to upgrade to continue using your device, almost like what windows is doing, as they really do have a large monopoly on gaming and non-overpriced/somewhat-repairable machines)

Finally, in thinking about this, I'm just so glad Linux exists and is actually finally a usable alternative to Windows.

[–] MicrowavedTea 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

From what I remember it's backwards compatible on lower levels but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10? Windows 11 was a smaller change but then they force you to upgrade hardware which is the opposite of compatibility.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't expect someone to upgrade hardware just to get the newest OS. And yeah, you can run a windows 7 app on windows 10, there's a compatibility mode in the properties of the exe where you can tell it to run in Windows xyz compatibility mode, though often you won't need to bother with that, as it'll just work.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10?

Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that's more just because hardware has moved on.