Overview:
The communities to look for microsoft alternatives.
Alternatives:
Forcing 60% of your customers to buy a new computer to upgrade their operating system, during the largest transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1% in a century, when people have record low disposable incomes.
It’s a cunning plan, I’m looking forward to see if it pays off while I can still afford popcorn.
Almost as good of an idea as building a desktop OS optimized entirely for touch in a era where a whopping... wait for it... 1% of computers had touchscreen capability.
... And when a touch interface was being linked to Gorilla Arm syndrome.
We have an enterprise license for Windows 11 at work, and it still has all those ads in the start menu. Fully enshittified.
Corporations just love ruining everything, as wow classic just got a big store button on the top of the character selection screen.
Down with Microsoft and Activision!
Classic. That's badass. And, to keep playing after they shove cata at us again shows loyalty. ;-p
I really like vanilla and sod personally but maybe I should look into private servers due to the recent events in the US.
Isn't there a quote about not interupting the enemy when they are making a mistake?
If you are a normal human who wants to actually own their computer and software on it, make no mistake, Microsoft is your enemy.
In the spirit of that I am sorry but I disagree with this article, I think Microsoft shouldn't change a thing about their genius strategy!
I don't give a shit what warcrime friendly Microsoft does. Mint is working just fine for me.
Let us drink to that 🍻
Genuine question...it seems generally known that malicious groups (both state entities or hackers) have spent considerable effort and resources hoarding day zero exploits. As soon as 10 is out of LTS in October, those groups start turning on their scripts, right?
To me it seems not only possible but nearly certain that there'll be a significant malware/botnet attack in Q4 across Windows 10 devices. Am I missing something?
And with these moronic tarriffs, any company who isn't actively working on upgrading right now is pretty well hosed.
oh let's not forget Elon & The Doge Dicks fucking around with the COBOL systems...
Strap on your strapons folks; its about to get weird.
I would say, dont stop, let them know what a failure is. And then drop it completely.
Let them dig this grave!
Windows what? I switched to Endeavour OS a week ago. ✌️
Give me a high five 🖐️, you just upgraded in time!
But that's like saying Trump "has to stop." I want him to, and I want MS and other software companies to quit churning their products just to keep selling new versions of them. But 20 years ago they had to stop, and they didn't, and they probably still won't. The answer isn't with them it's with us - we "have to" find alternatives like Linux. Or not. You can complain about the lack of appealing options on whatever menu is already in front of you, or use available solutions that take a bit more effort. It's up to you.
I can only see good things coming from Microsoft's death.
It doesn't need to stop, it needs to speed up and spur the exit. Everything's crashing rn because of the politics, they can call themselves a martyr of the times if they want.
Eventually people will leave.
No they really aren't. Maybe for the average tech enthusiast consumer they are, but the large majority of their customers is actually huge businesses that completely rely on Windows and will absolutely upgrade to Win11. Besides that the average consumer is not informed enough, nor cares to be, to switch to anything else. They will either continue to run unsecured windows 10, or will upgrade to 11 when some guy at best buy explains they have to. Those of us who are savvy enough will switch to linux but for microsoft that is a drop in the bucket, not a major loss at all.
We don’t need this self defeatist attitude as it’s plain wrong. People are switching to Linux albeit glacially at the moment.
I switched to linux. I'm all for it and very much encourage people to do so. I'm loving the push for gaming support too, so I do hope there's progress there. But ignoring the install base of international corporations is just lying to yourself. Find a significant company that's going to switch all their business PCs to Linux because of Win11 and I will gladly eat my words.
While it’s good you personally use Linux, It would definitely help out the movement more if you were more verbally encouraging towards it.
We don’t need corporations to do the right thing we need the everyday people to do so to greatly increase the demand for Linux support.
4 excellent points that can stand on their own.
And while my social circle has that particular flavour, there are a lot of questions about essentially "android like my phone but on my desktop". It's not a great metaphor but people are realizing there's more than pricy macs and cheesy windows. And that's a great step.
I installed the IOT edition which doesn't require a Microsoft account and has zero ads as far as I can tell. Enjoy it while it lasts!