You do migrate to newer versions of those ossses with new de and backend lib versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spending another week chasing down broken stuff and learning how different things work now.
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.
This is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago.
Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks
Or Android 6.0
Or Debian Jessie (8)
Or Linux Mint 17
Or Fedora 23
Or Slackware 14.1
Yes, but you don’t migrate to Windows 11 from those.
You do migrate to newer versions of those ossses with new de and backend lib versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spending another week chasing down broken stuff and learning how different things work now.
Which is about the same
windows 11 is not only about irreversible breaking changes
Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I’ll be impressed
2014… the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019
I’m counting that–which means I also have to count Windows 10 IoT, whose support ends in 2032. XP still wins!
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros did not cost any money to the users, either.
Apple hardware would like to have a word with you.