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Microsoft are conducting a massive experiment to find just how badly you can treat locked in consumers before they switch. They are plumbing the depths so well it is legitimately hard to imagine what new madness they could come up with next.
Microsoft are conducting a massive experiment to find just how badly you can treat locked in consumers before they switch. They are plumbing the depths so well it is legitimately hard to imagine what new madness they could come up with next.
This happened recently with price gouging disguised as inflation as well. It seems to be a common business tactic for corps at over over a certain size.
Genuine question: I've been hearing good things about PopOS. How realistic is it as a windows replacement ?
Genuine question: I've been hearing good things about PopOS. How realistic is it as a windows replacement ?
I'm using it as a daily driver now: https://hajo.me/blog/2024/07/02/the-year-of-the-linux-deskto... Biggest issue is printer drivers, I'd say.
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This happened recently with price gouging disguised as inflation as well. It seems to be a common business tactic for corps at over over a certain size.
Markets finding the price which balances supply and demand is not price gouging. Demand went up because it was suppressed during the pandemic and there was also extra savings in the economy (due to saving during the pandemic + stimulus and overall increase in money supply).
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I think that's pretty obvious, no? Behavioral controls. You add a web cam screenshot to that desktop screenshot and sell real attention signals to advertisers.
They already tried that with the XBox One Kinect. That one did backfire quite hard.
My decision to switch to a Fedora Desktop earlier this year after 25 years of Windows gets reinforced with every new "Windows Feature".
It's been a refreshing change, native versions of JetBrains IDEs, Docker and most Daily Apps (e.g. VS Code, Discord, GitHub Desktop, Obsidian, etc) were available on Day 1, surprisingly all my flagship Windows Steam Games I tried also just worked, there's also a lot more developer tools and command line enhancements available for Linux without the weird uncanny valley context switching I used to live with when using WSL.
Linux Desktop is in great shape if you're thinking of switching away from Windows.