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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by everyone on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:14PM (#34055451)
Well I think windows 11 has same kernal as 10? So probably drivers will be fine for a good few years also.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by iggldiggl on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:22AM (#34063967)
I think that's mainly backwards compatibility from the OS with regards to existing drivers, but Windows might still introduce some new APIs that hardware vendors might make use of, thereby rendering new drivers incompatible with older OSs.

Likewise, new CPU and/or chipset generations might require not just new drivers, but dedicated OS support, which in all likelihood won't be backported to the LTSB versions, either.

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