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>Case in point: Microsoft is stopping free support for Windows 10 on hundreds of millions of computers this very week. Many of these old yet perfectly usable devices will not be able to upgrade because of spurious hardware requirements. Microsoft’s solution? “Throw away your computer and pollute the planet because we want to make even more money.”

Windows 10 was released in 2015. Does KDE still support whatever version of KDE was released in 2015?

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No but upgrading KDE is free. It also doesn't force new hardware requirements.

KDE 5 was released in 2015 and still supported on Arch Linux. Even KDE 3, released in, 2002 is still supported and installable: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

Also supported in Slackware 15.0 (stable) and Slackware -current, where it is still the default desktop environment and the planned desktop for the upcoming 15.1 release.

(I'm using Plasma 6.5 beta now btw but the official support still is on 5.x.)

You're misunderstanding - the point is that current (supported) versions of KDE support hardware manufactured in 2015, and current (supproted) versions of Windows will stop doing that very soon.

The point is that KDE from 2015 will still run on today’s hardware.

So will Windows 10, and it will receive as much support as a KDE version from 2015.

It isn't competing with an old KDE, it's competing with the current version of KDE that still works on that hardware.

Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.

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