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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Windows is mutable. That’s likely what they are referring to.

[–] p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

Except it will prevent you from mutating many of its system files. I mean it's not a good argument for a former Windows user, unless they get a sudden urge to tinker with all possible system files on Linux (which is possible to do on immutable systems in one way or another, but it's much harder and not as straightforward)