They have been underfunded for a decade now, with some unfortunate consequences - the web browser is based on Gecko 91.

Their hardware business was doomed by 1998, FF7 and Gran Turismo had given PlayStation momentum that neither Sega or Nintendo could hope to match, but Sega was in a particularly tough spot because of years of misguided decisions.

They could have extended the Saturn's lifespan to 2000 and thrown their lot in with the PS2 after release, but it seems many people at SoJ were emotionally attached to the idea of selling consoles.

The Saturn was the bestselling Sega console in the Japanese market by a wide margin, so I’m not convinced that SoJ was the party pushing for a new console.

They wanted a console they could write a full-3D Sonic game for, the Saturn couldn't quite do such a game justice.

The S4 Mini ended up being a legendary long-termer as its drivers were built for the 3.10 kernel, which was still being patched by Red Hat two years ago.

It's happened at least three times:

Win8.1 x64 required double-width compare and exchange instruction support, so people who bought Win8 for a CPU or motherboard that didn't support it had to downgrade to the 32-bit version or lose support in 2016.

Win7 updates from 2018 onwards required SSE2 with no warning.

Win11 24H2 and later won't install on x86 processors that don't support the x86-64-v2 baseline.

There's always Windows Server...

What's available depends on the form factor, but there are some manufacturers that offer some choice in the 2700k 90+cri space nowadays.

The current HMD 105 4G/110 4G is ok and supports LTE bands common in North America.

Windows would be 'taught' as a byproduct of another activity involving Windows software, usually starting with Office/365.

KDE lost some corporate support when SUSE changed their default to GNOME in about 2005(?). I think it sees some use in the automotive world but aside from that it's all volunteer work.

If you liked that you would have loved the N9 (same body but with Linux-based OS).