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How can you use such an operating system now

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (24 children)

How can you use such an operating system now

To be honest, it still works better than Windows 10 or Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Problem is it's 3 years past EOL and hasn't received any security updates in that time.

It's functional, just not secure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There actually are updates to it as for the last three years Microsoft has continued to patch it under the commercial "Extended Security Update" program - that only ended in January 2023.
You just couldn't get them as a home user without doing a lot of tweaking on your own.

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