• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    it’s quite the opposite, updates for safari are generally tied to the operating system so after 7 years (but it could be 4 years in edge cases) safari will stop receiving updates. While third party browsers instead are more gentle, will continue to get updates as long as possible (but it’s still not calculated in “decades” as for windows or linux)

    regarding updates, i think linux can be installed on them (never touched one nor plan to do so in the next decade) but the combo shitty cpu+extremely small and slow emmc storage+the bare minimum RAM is a killer. Maybe just for a fun experiment

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I wrote. :)

      And as for Windows updates we don’t know what the future holds. Windows Vista and 8 certainly wasn’t supported for decades.

      Linux distros are fine as long as you do dist-upgrades, but that’s not something most people’s grandparents, heck, even most people, are going to do even if they were able to walk into a store and actually buy a computer with Linux on it.

      And as for the edge case Macs which only received four years of software updates - I’d be pissed if I was the owner of one.