![]() Why should the average Windows user switch if fixes for the problems with their current OS exist and applying those fixes has a much lower barrier to entry than changing their OS? If you are a Windows user, it is far easier to remove the included bloat and malware in Windows than it is to try and run things on Linux. I can't recall a satisfactory answer to this from Linus, Luke, or anyone who wants more people to switch to Linux. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, you speak me verry well ^_^. But of course creators are a bit defensive about this fact for some reason. The combination of all of these things is going to mean that he will run into problems that most people don't have. He's on a Threadripper with a 3090 lots of high caliber parts which he uses via Thunderbolt. Even in normal times it would be the highest end and therefore rarest hardware in a rare combination. He is using a computer that is virtually unobtainable. This leads to the real issue I have pointed out and which Linus in particular does not want to accept. everything internally seemed to connect via USB which was an open standard so Linux worked with it just fine. By the time laptops became common and affordable for me HP Compaq machines of the day. So many laptops were not very standard at all. Getting it to work with a laptop back in those days was hit and miss for sure. There were PROBLEMS back then if you had hardware that was windows specific. I started with Caldera Open Linux first on a Tandy Sensation II back in the late 1990's. I have no intention of being forced into using Windows Vista 3.0, Adware edition, and my Haswell box, despite having TPM, isn't supported anyway, and I'd rather not just eWaste it. ![]() If I like what it's doing, I'll be also installing it on my gaming/editing machine. I probably should use Ubuntu instead, but I'm trying it out on hardware, not just a VM, to prepare for replacing Win 10 Pro on my old Haswell machine. I'm getting prepared to switch my laptop over to Kubuntu LTS, which might be a mistake. What happens when BMW adds a fee to enable the wiper blades? Or the airbags? What happens in a number of years, when a Honda Civic costs $150,000, and you have to pay $1,500/month on top of the vehicle cost, just for the seat adjusters to work, the engine to give you more than 30% power, and your wiper blades to have an 'automatic' setting that doesn't suck? Man, this is like power creep from P2W MMO's, but it's evolving into something so dystopian.īack to the topic of this thread. It's like buying a brand new BMW car, for $120,000, then having to pay $10/month for the heated seats to work. That and I refuse to use a Microsoft account for sign in. But paying for a product, then having ads inserted into that product, is just stupid. ![]() As said before by numerous YouTubers, if Windows 11 Home was free, then ads would make sense. Because I'm tired of dealing with bloatware, shady AF business practices, and being a 'product' for a product I purchased. So, I paid more to prevent that.Īnd this is why I'm looking at switching to Linux. I'm not worried about some phishing attack, or someone hacking my internet connection, but I was pissed off that I'm paying for a service, and part of that service includes my ISP selling my browsing history to third party advertisers, so they can advertise to me. I goggled, and figured out that they log almost everything their users do. I refuse to use Edge, even if it's Chromium based, even if it's a good product, even if what the fuck ever justification here.Īround two years ago, my ISP fat fingered some config in their settings on their servers, and almost every single HTTP request got force redirected to a stupid internal page with an 'upcoming features' or some other BS. ![]() If I'm going to pay for a full license/copy of Windows 11 Pro, MS should fuck right off with their bullshit. Fighting MS just to not be forced to use Edge is ridiculous. It looks to me like, despite your statement above, Microsoft is willing to do any and everything to prevent that. ![]() I adopt Windows Sidegrades usually after the "product" has matured. If you are a Windows user, it is far easier to remove the included bloat and malware in Windows than it is to try and run things on Linux.Īs a long time Windows user (uh, Win ME was my first at-home Windows OS), and occasional dabbler in Linux (yeah, I had Red Hat waaaaaaaaay back in the day, also dabbled with Ubuntu), I'm getting ready to permanently switch over to Linux. ![]()
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