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Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam

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Re: Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam

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squarefoot wrote: post #19

Thank you, Microsoft! Thousands, potentially millions, of users will be motivated to migrate to other OSes, also thanks to Windows 11 insane hardware requirements they will find tons of essentially free hardware that will run their new OS with no issues.

This won’t do anything in the realm of millions of users. I’m not even sure what the lazy part is trying to say. What OS are these supposed people moving to? It’s not Linux. It’s likely not Mac as moving to that will be for other reasons, not this...especially when every MacBook and iMac has a front facing camera.

Re: Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam

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Post by skinnymuch »

squarefoot wrote: post #34
kungito wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes I laugh at arguments like this, sometimes I get pissed of. You are seriously disconnected from reality if you think this will change anything except all laptops having a front webcam. I haven't seen one without it ever anyways

There are some realities I may have been connected in the past, in which a laptop with a camera cannot enter if it is yours, and won't have a camera at all if it's from the employer. The point however was Microsoft imposing unnecessary hardware requirements, and my comment stands since from a Linux (BSD, whatever) point of view, lots of Windows users ditching their perfectly good few years old PC means a huge load of…

Your last paragraph goes against your original thesis. Whatever Microsoft did. It didn’t impact much at all. There was no migration. Netbooks aren’t even a thing any more outside Chromebooks.

The point doesn’t stand since there won’t be some exodus of users switching to Linux.

None of my friends or likey acquaintances who aren’t programmers or in related fields including a handful who sometimes or frequently keep up with general tech/gadget news, can tell you a Linux distro name. They likely can’t tell you what a distro is. I’m sure if I was to say Ubuntu they would say yes they have heard of it of are a bit familiar, but that’s the extent of it.

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