Obsolescence and replacement is the economy building of General Motors. Apple has to protect itself from saturation of their own products. No one likes to give you free life long service. Even though, my BMW is still working every day after 28 years of service.

But in reality ownership means asset value maintenance. I have autoupdated browsers to keep me on the clouds. Hardware operating system can be the same as many years ago, as long as browsers can read webpages in its codec. Firefox v1.5.0.12 still works on W95/W98se in today's clouds.

So lagacy antiques are valuable, if you can still use it many years from now. New technology in Computer science is not keeping people away, unless you buy new equipment. But older computers can work same as smartphones or tablets in the future.

WiFi/b DSSS mode speed on the clouds is 600 kBps, made your older equipment better than new expensive smartphones. Can Android be inferior(buggy) than older operating systems?

I recently upgraded my desktop, so this isn't as much of a problem as it was on my 6 year-old desktop, but this article rubs a still raw wound.

Is there a logical reason why compositing desktop software is required to support basic LibreOffice/Chromium/VLC/Terminal operation? I was never into the spinning desktops, and the other 'advantages' of compositing left me cold, but because my desktop did not support compositing, my desktop required kernel mode run-time switches to keep from crashing on distro updates after 2.6.28! I could still run Debian and Red Hat (and Red Hat derivatives), but Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora crashed before ever getting to the login screen.

If you need compositing to login, take me back to CLI only.