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I'm both amused and angry that Windows 10 adopted the same model as the big commercial Linux distributions: a fast-cycle OS that upgrades every 6 months (but might have bugs), and a slow-moving version that they support for a long time but won't suddenly change behavior or stop working with your hardware.

It is a proven model in the Linux world. The unpleasant thing is that Microsoft shunted millions of users on to the equivalent of Fedora or non-LTS Ubuntu without bothering to explain this.




I'm sorry, what didn't they bother to explain? Why are you angry that they adopted a release model that works well?


They pushed everyone from major versions to rolling release.




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