yes, but the Enterprise level license usually lasts longer than the individual license does. Enterprise level you’re basically stuck in that ecosystem, you’ve got tools written for it. I remember when IE6 was the latest hotness and then everyone struggled to get away from it for years and years but integral revenue generating tools relied on it.

yeah. I have a tiny-pc (whatever the ultra sff is called now) that will run w10 forever - supported or not, for a specific use-case, but the desktop i’m trying to transition to will be linux. already moved my laptop to linux (both mint because it’s easy). have a different laptop that was decent 10 years ago that I use as a testbench to try out other, non-mint distros.

long term i’ll move to 3x computers but daily really only use two.

yeah I’m mid transition myself - probably switch for good when win10 goes EoL. I tried win11 and hate it.

or, you know, just switch to linux. several distros are basically just as usable out of box as anything microsoft has released.

someone had to make history by sinking a company like he did. object lesson in what not to do…

dev oriented distro it looks like? dunno about the net installer aspect… but I’m really new to linux too so maybe it’s a nice feature?