i mean is a distro not made by a corp stable as in does it last years or do they often fail and vanish?

so i dont install a distro and customize it and all this and fine i need to move my whole digital life to new distro again.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      19·
      11 hours ago

      Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don’t.

      The only way a community project can cease to be “stable” (in the “not going away” sense you’re using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that’s the case, was anything of value really lost?

    • Marcomunista@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      32·
      12 hours ago

      Like when they force you to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, but your computer isn’t powerful enough to run the latter.

        • Marcomunista@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I don’t run Windows at all. I’m probably not up to date on the latest developments, the last time I checked, there was a compatibility check for your hardware. Anyway, it seems strange to me that Windows would run fast on an old machine—are you sure about that?

            • Marcomunista@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Have you ever tried installing Linux Mint on that PC? I’m not asking to encourage you to try it, but just to get your opinion. I consider Mint one of the best operating systems for breathing new life into old PCs, and I wanted to know if (assuming you’ve tried Mint) you think Windows is roughly on par with it in terms of performance.