<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">It's probably more about the training that HP's support teams have been given. Until very recently the support cycle of most PCs would assume that they had the same OS throughout their lifespan because few people even upgrade the version of Windows they use, so to allow the people on the phones to be able to support the new laptops, the decision has been to go with an old (but still supported) LTS release and to issue a caveat that new releases 'might not' work but from experience the probability is fairly low.</p><p dir="ltr">The big hardware companies have been very conservative with regard to Linux. In a project I worked on in 2009 HP were advocating RHEL 4 as a server platform when RHEL 5 was two years old. They've probably only just got onto 5, or possibly 6.<br></p><p>s/</p>
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