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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> You can't be that confident that the other operating systems will work
> on the new hardware, either.

Mainstream hardware is usually well supported. Bleeding-edge
technologies and obsolete hardware may not be. Mainstream commercial
operating systems are probably a slightly better bet for obsolete
hardware, since they are more likely to have encountered it previously
and it's unusual for support to be explicitly removed.

-- 
Anthony