Quote Originally Posted by GMPX View Post
Ok, but using an OS for day to day chores is one thing, developing a product for an OS is another. I couldn't care less really what OS I run but to develop for Linux, no offence but why?
I agree, just wanted to call out that in a few years you'll need (well want) to upgrade or look at a way to keep your dev machines safe from external threats. I'm guessing it'd actually be when you need new hardware to run the OS, it'll be a challenge to find older CPUs and motherboards.

Quote Originally Posted by Cougar281 View Post
No, its not totally tombstoned. You generally can't buy it unless you find NOS somewhere like Microcenter or Amazon, and M$ apparently has been collaborating with Intel to try to ensure Windows 10 (Not Win7 - I have bought nothing but win7 on machines for my company) will be sold on all new computers by not making drivers for anything below Win10 for the latest chipsets, but Win 7 should continue to be supported and get security updates for a few more years. XP JUST went into the unsupported category.

Personally, while there are a few nice things about Win10, I'm FAR from impressed and would much rather run Win 7.

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Yes you're correct it's not "tombstoned", but it is EOL for consumers from Microsoft. They're pushing small security updates until 2020 and then it'll be like XP where tons of people run it but it never gets patched.

It's not ideal that the latest Intel CPUs (and AMD Ryzen CPUs) dont support anything prior to Windows 10. It's tough to tell people they have to run W10 on their latest PC build because the drivers dont exist for previous OS'.