I’ve been seeding many Foss things for years but for some reason, people keep downloading Ubuntu versions that are more than 3 years old.

Any ideas why there is always someone downloading the ancient stuff, especially Ubuntu?

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I worked at a place which was still using a 20.04 version (for products they were selling) because updating it would require spending any amount of time updating software. Path of least resistance is using the old os forever.

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      10 years ago I was working at a place that still used an Apple ][e

      It controlled a ROM burner that was vital to the manufacturing process. In a back room was a stack of backup ][e s just in case the production one should ever fail. In the years I worked there it never did.

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        We had an old 286 running the HVAC at a hospital I worked at. This was a hospital with about 2000 employees in a major American city.