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are community based distros stable or only corp ones? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[+] [S] 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)
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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago*

    Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don't.

    The only way a community project can cease to be "stable" (in the "not going away" sense you're using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that's the case, was anything of value really lost?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Like when they force you to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, but your computer isn't powerful enough to run the latter.

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  • [+] [S] -1 points 7 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't run Windows at all. I'm probably not up to date on the latest developments, the last time I checked, there was a compatibility check for your hardware. Anyway, it seems strange to me that Windows would run fast on an old machine—are you sure about that?

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    Little known fact is that a lot of computers that ran/run Windows 10 is not supported by Windows 10 (check supported CPUs for Windows 10). The difference is that Windows 10 doesn’t actively block you from installing it.

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