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Ubuntu is very usable for a desktop OS.
Except they too pushed ads (ubuntu advantage) and snap and other annoying stuff.
Ubuntu: one line message in the terminal about we released thing, feel free to try it.
Yeah, basically the same thing.
I remember it was calls to split Microsoft into separate companies, one for the operating system and one for the internet divisions. Looks like it’s time now.
Last time Microsoft had the default web browser they were horrible stewards of the web. I’ll never forget them delaying supporting PNG.
I just want them to use clippy to force you into going from google sheets back to excel just for the memes. (and don't tell me to stop giving them bad ideas, I know the higher-ups love them)
I gave my old parents the latest hand-me-up laptop and installed ubutntu on it because of windows 11. The install process and default configuration is so user hostile to someone that "just needs to use chrome". My niece & nephew have only known ChromeOS/iOS/Android. They will never use windows until a college course requires some specific software, or they get a desk job. I think they will for sure eventually "learn…
Glad I switched to ReviOS and don’t have to deal with these shenanigans. https://revi.cc/
I've been out of the Windows world for years, but seeing a lot of games are now available on Linux, and drivers, why not build a Linux gaming PC? I mean what else would you need a PC with Windows for? This ReviOS stuff has all the smoke signals of too good to be true .
I'm surprised no one has brought up United States v. Microsoft yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . They were successfully sued for favoring their browser over others, and faced being broken up. Though their actions now are not as egregious as those actions 25 years ago, it's obvious that no lesson has been learned.
I used to be a huge Windows fan, but shoving Edge upon me so aggressively has made me decide it’s time to move on. Moving forward, I’m only buying Apple or Linux devices.
I mean what the hell. My kid just wants to play minecraft for Christ's sake.
Microsoft only continue to make Windows desktop because businesses "need it", and it's a gateway to sell people azure and office. Eventually they will open source as much of it as they can, or rather, build a flavour of windows that is Linux and essentially distribute binaries for the directx stuff and other things they're not willing to fully release the code on. mark my words, Windows isn't dying a natural death, i…
Over 40 years of licensing and patent agreements with thousands of companies and institutions with the unavoidable flux of acquisitions, merges and deaths, big customer agreements. You'll need an army of lawyers and sizable team of developers working in a multi-year project to secure all the paperworks and sanitize the code where you couldn't reach an agreement with the other party.
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Except they too pushed ads (ubuntu advantage) and snap and other annoying stuff.
Windows: ads in the start menu, candy crush, hey you are trying to install chrome and I don't like that. Ubuntu: one line message in the terminal about we released thing, feel free to try it. Yeah, basically the same thing.