Re: Potential (security) issue for beginners/non-experts when release is End Of Life: Fedora doesn’t consider the behavior of beginners/non-experts sufficiently

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On 8/13/23 16:57, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
look at SUPPORT_END in /etc/os-release and nag more frequently.

Highly recommend other Fedora editions consider similar notifications.
I don't think more nagging is going to help. It is just going to be 
considered yet another annoying nag to ignore or click away. Like it or not, 
non-technical users are NEVER going to upgrade to a new operating system 
release. Not now, not 10 years from now. Until their computer physically 
breaks down, at least. There is just nothing you can do about it.

I believe this is overly pessimistic: people tend to upgrade their Android and iOS devices and applications, because the update process is low-friction and well tested so that people tend to trust it.

I have personally had multiple Fedora upgrade issues due to lack of space in the root filesystem, so maybe Fedora is not yet at a point where we can unconditionally launch into upgrading, but it's a technical issue that can be corrected.

We already have SUPPORT_END so I think it makes sense to use it.

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