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Rather: I have a perfrctly gine computer but cannot upgrade it to Windows 11 for free, because Microsoft came up with random requirements. They want me to buy a new computer and pay for Windows again.

Also "security" is not a real excuse. If someone can physically grab my computer they will be able to break into it few days after Windows 11 is life since there will be some exploit like there always are.

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So I will move to a platform that's literally more restrictive in every other way (in)humanely possible? Right!

Is it? I haven't seen any ads or a requirement to sign in with Microsoft/Apple account in macOS, there's no Pre-installed TikTok nor Angry Birds returning on every update and I haven't seen Apple discontinuing support for 6 years old computers.

It might be restrictive in all the ways I don't care about, but oh well.

> and I haven't seen Apple discontinuing support for 6 years old computers.

You mean the way macOS Ventura is only for their hardware released in the last six years? [1]

Apple’s absolutely do discontinue support for older hardware all the time when they release new macOS and iOS versions.

You can keep running the older operating system but it will stop receiving updates. It doesn’t seem hugely different to having to stay on Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213264

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