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Have you looked at their competitors recently, in terms of long-term support for their older offerings?
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Yeah, linux is continually updateable and you don't have to pull out your wallet to keep current.
My main beef is that they drop significant functionality with their upgrades, and generally change things gratuitously too much. Oh yeah and make you pay again for what you are forced to upgrade.
[Rant]Until 60 days ago, I had a Vista machine that I was perfectly happy with. I resisted upgrades because it was my main mail machine, and the Vista mail client supported POP3, which I use by choice; I do not want my mail in the cloud. I would have gone to Windows 7 but that mail client dropped POP3. Same with Windows 8 (which I would not have gone to anyhow), 8.x, 9 (whatever) and 10. I have now reluctantly gone to Win10 and use a third party mail client that I don't really like. I had to pay for the update, and now it seems I have to pay again for MS Office (and Visual Studio and a few other things). I resent all of these upgrade fees. I don't use any more MS Office functionality than was present in the very first version they came out with in the 1980s. There are no new features that I feel the need to pay for. Don't get me started on the ribbon.[/Rant]
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: Yeah, linux is continually updateable and you don't have to pull out your wallet to keep current.
Compare what "long-term support" means on the Linux side with anything Microsoft is doing.
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From my point of view it means that when you want to upgrade to the next version, you can for free without having to do a clean install or pay for new versions of existing apps that you already own.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: From my point of view it means that when you want to upgrade to the next version, you can for free
So you're just expecting a free lunch in perpetuity?
H.Brydon wrote: without having to do a clean install
In-place upgrades have certainly been supported for a very, very long time. In fact I remember reading some article by some guy who, just for sh*t and giggles, installed Windows 3.1 in a VM, then upgraded it to 95, then 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 (I think that was still the latest back then), just to see what settings would get preserved and what would get lost. At no point is there any requirement to clean install, unless you're moving from 32- to 64-bits, but then I'm pretty sure Linux offers no such upgrade option either. But I could obviously be wrong on that, given the number of distributions, I wouldn't be surprised if some did, others didn't.
H.Brydon wrote: or pay for new versions of existing apps that you already own.
That's up to the individual app vendors. I'm assuming since you're on this site, you're a software developer - does that include the apps you've written and selling yourself?
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dandy72 wrote: So you're just expecting a free lunch in perpetuity?
When it applies to personal safety (eg. auto recalls etc.) or security, ... YES
dandy72 wrote: In-place upgrades have certainly been supported for a very, very long time...
And they were supported for Vista on up, including Win7 to Win10, but they took that away. That is the operating system. Different story in some cases for other products. I'm talking here of things like MS Office, VisualStudio, which I use. I had to buy a newer MS Office and my VS is currently broken.
dandy72 wrote: That's up to the individual app vendors. I'm assuming since you're on this site, you're a software developer - does that include the apps you've written and selling yourself?
I am a software developer (somewhat, ... but retired now). My apps and work is all free, public domain. I've worked on WinVN (NASA), Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, CppUnit and a bunch of others. All free, all OS independent (as much as can be).
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I have already written what that reminds me of in the soapbox, so no metasoapboxing needed.
But I'm chaotic evil too.[^] 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Proof (SFW image)
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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You know this won't end well... 
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Has anyone warned Poland?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or Czechia? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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lol
British Humor at a glance. Are you one of those Monthly Pythons? 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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No, there is something fawlty about me, just don't mention the war - I did once, but I think I got away with it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ever since the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Germans on the move have been bad news. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You mean because of this three tank hour Story?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Not surprising with Austria sharing climate and language, it would be weird if it were Australia.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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And don't forget being just one drive away, so you can actually go home to see the family every weekend if you want.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Make Austria Germany again!
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Are we all Doomed or is it just a game?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Doom was not "just a game" - it was a Way Of Life.
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Hi Doomed, I'm Sander 
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I Quake just thinking about it.
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What an adventure[^] we seem to have embarked on!
/ravi
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