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   From: romain@dolbeau.org   
      
   Le lun. 27 oct. 2025 à 22:58, Milan Kupcevic  a écrit :   
   > It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide   
   > availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production   
   > environment.   
      
   Hardware lasts a lot longer. People are forced to update because   
   vendors have given up on support and are forcing users to upgrade.   
   It's called planned obsolescence, as I'm sure you all already know.   
      
   Debian is (at least up to now) the Linux distribution one could rely   
   on to support hardware as long as its actual life without forcing   
   users to upgrade. I have ~2007 (Penryn) systems still in use that were   
   deployed with Debian when new, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. If   
   it ain't broke, don't fix it, just upgrade Debian :-)   
      
   Debian isn't Microsoft. Debian isn't Apple. Debian isn't Google.   
   Please don't learn the wrong lessons from them. Planned obsolescence   
   is bad, not good.   
      
   Cordially,   
      
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   Romain Dolbeau   
      
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