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[Feature Request] Windows Eternal Support by LegacyUpdate #239

Open joeyoropesa-dev opened 6 months ago

joeyoropesa-dev commented 6 months ago

Can LegacyUpdate ports latest security and most important features that most softwares depends on it (how the future goes...) from latest Windows to older versions of Windows and push it as an update for older versions of Windows (for EOL versions that most people are using these days like Windows XP, 7 and so on..) by LegacyUpdate servers

Also, for most native look, could LegacyUpdate be runnable in control panel and standard EOL version of Windows Updates control panel be disabled/removed

This could make it looks like more native and if ports for security updates gets always created for these most used Windows versions, potentially those EOL versions of Windows could be used forever (until the hardware gets too old to not be able to turn on anymore) and getting security in the same time too

Also, most apps will not stop to work since modded kernels that fakes Windows version to the apps could make a better apps compatibility and with getting some critical features from latest Windows supported versions ported to these versions of Windows, latest apps could be used on these EOL versions of Windows without any issues

(Optional: Porting UWP capability, bootstrap and dependencies from newer Windows versions to the EOL versions that are mostly used - they could also be served as an optional windows compatibility updates 👍)

kristibektashi commented 3 months ago

Pretty sure it's more complicated than that to port newer updates to old Windows versions (and especially UWP), even with the Extended Kernel, so I doubt it's happening anytime soon. Also it's out of scope for Legacy Update, as it only focuses on giving access to official updates on older systems.