It isn't obvious yet and won't be until about this time next year, what sort of market share Microsoft is risking by this change. They're offering paid support for another year or so but that's only putting the problem off. And it doesn't prevent a repeat - "Hey, Windows 12 is coming out but you're going to have to buy a new infabulator in order to run it and we're pulling support for everything else. Have a nice day." Nope.
[[and I have only a few games that require Windows to hold me back from complete transition right now.]]
Many games now run on linux with proton (different versions to try to get the games working)- it’s pretty easy- I’ve installed several of my old windows games, and they run fine-
[[”Hey, Windows 12 is coming out but you’re going to have to buy a new infabulator in order to run it and we’re pulling support for everything else. Have a nice day.” Nope.]]
Yup- the writing is on the wall- Windows will be unusable to all but the most cutting edge computers soon- already is really- I have a brand new computer- all spankin new parts, and windows 11 just blue screens over and over and over- I spent over a month trying to work out all the stupid blue screen errors- wow! Talk about frustrating and time wasting-
I have windows 10 on as well, and it runs pretty well BUT with updates lately, it too is running into blue screens too- with cryptic error messages-
Linux never has a problem- no crashes- no freezing- it just works-
Well it is like getting a divorce. You just have to let go of some of the good things you liked to be rid of all the bad things. When it comes to this MS switch over to Linux sometimes you just have to also divorce some old games and apps and go courting new ones.
MS is counting on that “one game I can’t live without” to keep you enslaved and locked into the marriage.