Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

Posted Aug 30, 2020 18:04 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel by kreijack
Parent article: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

It's chicken-and-egg problem. Most users want (and some need) long-years-gurantee, but they don't use Linux, they use Windows.

And the remaining few enthusiasts don't need such guarantees precisely because they were selected (by distro-makers) from the set of all users precisely by that criteria.

As for Linux is widely deployed to a very huge number of architecture... please don't make me laugh: the Linux which is deployed on tens of billions (hundred of billions) devices have nothing to do with the CADT Model which BirAdam complains about. That one is almost exclusively for x86... because yes, only there you can send users to Windows.