Old versions of Windows always fell out of support.

Some old versions of windows also had newer hardware requirements (95 dropped support for 16 bit systems, Vista required a DirectX9 GPU).

There's nothing really new here.

>> Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great.

For me a bigger concern is that Windows 11 requires MS account, and making harder and harder to bypass it. This is a disrespect for my freedom and privacy. The hardware is not the biggest issue because it might catch up eventually. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-...

Microsoft doesn't care about end users like you or I. We don't impact their bottom line at all. 0%. They care about business customers using other products, and occasionally data collection.

Windows has to be just functional enough to keep businesses that use it from raising a stink about it.

I don't think requiring secure boot is a big deal given every computer since Sandy Bridge iirc ships with it.

Requiring a sodding Copilot advert on the keyboard too, in the case of laptops..

I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia.

The people I've switched from windows to Mageia since win11 all love it.

(As great as Mageia is, it does have small repos compared to Debian or fedora.)

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