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Windows 10 Compatibility Issues Forcing US Air Force To Scrap a Significant Number of Computers (betanews.com)
The US Department of Defense has decreed that the Air Force must complete its migration to Windows 10 by March 31 2018. From a report: Failure to do so will result in any systems not running Microsoft's latest operating system being denied access to the Air Force Network. However, because Windows 10 is not compatible with many of the Air Force's existing systems, a significant number of computers will need to be replaced in order to hit the deadline.
From a current end-user standpoint, i can see how you might think that.
10 doesn't support many "older" fingerprint readers, many older sound cards, most older webcams or image capture devices. it doesn't support most of the pcmcia cards I have. it won't install or upgrade on entire series of processors, there's no real drivers for huge swathes of chipsets. plus there's no 10 driver for most of my crypto cards be they pci, pcmcia or expresscard.
Seriously? in my experience Debian natively supports, Significantly more hardware than 10. Even most of my Weird stuff works fine in Debian..
But I thought it was finally the Year of the Windows Desktop? You're saying I have to wait longer?!
To be feature-complete Debian must implement phone-home spyware embedded deeply into the OS. Sure you have the source, but to do this correctly the spying must happen in a binary blob. That would achieve parity with Microsoft.
Maybe they won't go for a binary blob? Then at minimum there must be NO configuration option to disable it, only a few options to decide how bad it gets. And the only way to disable it must be modification of the source plus recompilation. That isn't as "good" as the Windows 10 experience but it's close because most users cannot or will not bother. Just as most Windows 10 users can't or won't switch to Macs or Linux so they're stuck with being spied on.
Then, and only then, can everyone enjoy the festival.