its kinda how i see it. windows cuts off support if something is not enough/too slow, linux cuts support if its too niche that no one wants to support it.
distro support aside, in the case of the kernel specifically it’s usually dead code
nobody maintains it properly, nobody asks for it to be maintained, it continues to rot and get overrun with issues until eventually somebody suggests just removing it altogether
if there are no real objections, it gets pulled from the kernel
its kinda how i see it. windows cuts off support if something is not enough/too slow, linux cuts support if its too niche that no one wants to support it.
distro support aside, in the case of the kernel specifically it’s usually dead code
nobody maintains it properly, nobody asks for it to be maintained, it continues to rot and get overrun with issues until eventually somebody suggests just removing it altogether
if there are no real objections, it gets pulled from the kernel