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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Windows 10 was available as a free upgrade for a while, but as my own experience shows it didn't really work on all legacy hardware—along with lack of driver support, it also ran very poorly on my old computer. And in any case it's not free anymore.
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I include both the cost of a Windows license and the cost of the new hardware to run it on.
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It's reasonable to expect older hardware to run modern operating system runtimes, which is the particular advantage of Linux. Hardware should not lock you out of having *some* route forward, and the job of an operating system is to support lots of hardware.
Your hardware doesn't "go out of support" for sitting on your desk and running.
It's NOT reasonable to expect older operating systems to run modern programs. Operating systems can be replaced or upgraded, and it's not reasonable or practical to demand program developers be responsible for maintaining compatibility with ancient systems they cannot easily test.
Operating systems go out of support all the time, this is the sign that people should move on to the new release or switch operating systems if the new release doesn't let you.
calibre will not be going to excessive lengths to painfully force support for older OSes. No point complaining about it -- these users have alternatives. We saw the same complaints when Windows XP got dropped, too.