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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1; Mozilla recommend switching to Linux, for people who can't run Windows 10 or 11 (support.mozilla.org)
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[โ€“] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In fairness to Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird are platform agnostic. It's not really for them to tell users what OS to use. It'd cause them more aggro than its worth from all the people who have differing opinions on what the best OS is or the best distro to use. It's already a tightrope act keeping their users happy when they announce things like AI in the browser. I think they're right to focus on their own areas of interest.

[โ€“] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

True. Maybe a guide that mentions the big names would suffice? I have a friend scared away with the choice paralysis.