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Accepting that “charge a large amount of money up front for the OS” is a dead end business model I’d be okay with this if they stripped all the user hostile and adware crap back. They won’t.
How did we all get stuck in the worst possible [tech] timeline?
Accepting that “charge a large amount of money up front for the OS” is a dead end business model I’d be okay with this if they stripped all the user hostile and adware crap back. They won’t.
Tiered subscriptions, with some kind of premium tier having only 1/2 the crapware and ads?
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Windows is free when I buy a PC. If I need to pay additional money to keep the OS running then I may as well save some money in the first place and just use Linux.
I hear System76 has some decent machines that don't have to stomach the cost of a Windows license. I believe Dell also offers a variant of the Dell XPS that is cheaper for having Linux?
The have the OS choice (Windows Home, Pro, or "No OS") with the price listed for each.
"No OS" is $0, the windows ones aren't.
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I hear System76 has some decent machines that don't have to stomach the cost of a Windows license. I believe Dell also offers a variant of the Dell XPS that is cheaper for having Linux?
Framework laptops too: https://frame.work The have the OS choice (Windows Home, Pro, or "No OS") with the price listed for each. "No OS" is $0, the windows ones aren't.
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Framework laptops too: https://frame.work The have the OS choice (Windows Home, Pro, or "No OS") with the price listed for each. "No OS" is $0, the windows ones aren't.
My main complaint against them used to be the lack of GPU. But now, if I ever have a next laptop, it very well could be a Framework 16.
Half-devil advocating here, but is this the end of the world? Right now, we have software that we expect that keeps being updated, but the company gets a one time payment. With a subscription, things get more stable financially and the company can adjust the budget accordingly. It also incentivized keeping Windows good and working so those subscriptions don't get cancelled.
Ah yes, Microsoft. The company known for being so cash poor and not making money from their OS.
Vaguely similar to the notion of an “alive” business and a “dead” one, I look at any application or website with a community in the same light: the second that some suit-wearing MBA is allowed to alienate the power users, the contributors, the developers, or the equivalent, it’s downhill into inevitable doom from there. Sure, the bulk of the user pyramid might be retained — for a while — but the peak is where the act…
And the suit-wearing MBA will probably say "yup, that's fine, it's harvest time!"