# New Cheap PC for Windows 11 or supporting Discourse discussion {Also obsoleting Browsers & OP systems}

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** computer-hardware\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cheap-pc-for-windows-11-or-supporting-discourse-discussion-also-obsoleting-browsers-op-systems/1016577 "2025-04-03T16:26:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cheap-pc-for-windows-11-or-supporting-discourse-discussion-also-obsoleting-browsers-op-systems/1016577/110 "2025-04-05T16:44:05Z")

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> [@Apparently I'm going to be kicked off the boards (Discourse upcoming incompatibility){New cheap PC posts moved out}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-going-to-be-kicked-off-the-boards-discourse-upcoming-incompatibility-new-cheap-pc-posts-moved-out/1016432/108):
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> Really? Explain why you can’t support stuff you already are supporting? An old tube TV was never able to get modern stuff.

For software companies, the accumulation of legacy stuff and old stuff causes a whole lot of rework over time. When they write say… Win 7 using one API, 10 using a later version, and 11 using a third even later version, they have to keep both the talent and the systems available to support and maintain those earlier versions. And often the developers of _those_ systems aren’t interested in supporting or licensing some ancient API from 2009.

So they eventually have to move away from those old systems and all that supports them. It’s NO different than manufacturers stopping production of parts for 2009 era appliances, cars, or whatever.

And really… unless you’ve been under a rock for the past three decades, you know already that PCs have about a seven or eight year useful cycle at most, before they start becoming PITAs to deal with all that old garbage and getting/setting up a new one becomes the easier option. Having a machine running Win 7 and griping that it’s no longer supported (EOL was in _2020_, FWIW) is pretty ridiculous.

> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I agree it sucks, but the world can’t stand still.

I don’t even think it sucks; it’s just the way of the world, and fighting it is absurd.

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