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    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    The reason end of support keeps getting brought up is because the only remaining supported version is currently in a trash state and officially doesn't support a LOT of hardware still in use.

    Windows 7 was still supported for 5 years after 10 came out. Windows 8 didn't go end of support until last year, 8 years after 10 launched. And keeping in mind that you could have upgraded a machine originally on xp to windows 10, it is hard to not feel like they are doing the entire industry dirty killing support just 4 years after the new os launched, while they are still bogging it down with newer and shittier features like its in beta or something.