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I'm going to argue that it's very unlikely any of those people are friends or colleagues. It didn't ask if you recommend Windows on social media or forums.
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are those real? I don't believe anyone ever said "it's like linux but it works."
it does work though, on windows i can see ads and intrusive crap all the time. Linux distros don't bother you at all, it's like linux is not even trying at this point.
This makes me want to make a Linux addon just for ads
Like make it entirely transparent Download this is you miss having ads lol
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Oh god
I met a vegan who uses vim and arch linux. I'm that guy. I use vim and arch linux, and I'm a vegan.
Have you considered CrossFit?
Maybe they cook only with an air fryer.
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well duh. windows is the default everyone uses, no one needs to recommend it.
linux on the other hand is an obscure choice that may be better for that use case and may not be known.
You people are coordinated in your recommendations. You are more efficient than the KGB
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This meme is older than Windows 11
Don't be so certain - I'd recommend Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT over Windows 11 any day
This meme is older than windows 8
Why are you still using Windows? Switch to Linux!
Imagine using linux in 2024, TempleOS all the way
If we claim we are recommending distros do we escape on a technicality?
The distro IS the OS, so no.
The word distro is a commonly used for Linux distros, where the OS is Linux, I would say.
Edit: this sentence is wrong
I wouldn’t say the OS is Linux any more than the OS of an Apple computer is XNU. Linux is just the kernel. Similarly the other OS isn’t “Windows NT kernel,” but Windows 10 or Windows 11.
unironically: most distros are actually mostly gnu, just with a linux kernel. bit annoyed when people just call it "linux"
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No, the OS is a given.
Missed opportunity due complain about recall, bloatware, spyware and ads in an OS people pay for.
Windows 11 has changed this, many many people now warn other people about not using Windows 11 because it is such shit. Doesn't matter what you run, just don't run Windows 11.
That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.
That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.
And the joke works with 8 and 10 both being shitty, because they skipped 9, which would have been the good one.
They really should have gone with Windows Nine, to bring the naming scheme in line with Xbox One while also avoiding the startswith.('Windows 9') issue
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You will need to after Oct 2025 unless you want Linux or Mac OS
Hey, whats so bad about w11?
Obsoleting a lot of relatively recent fast hardware means people are either faced with a fuck off or complicated work arounds. Then there is forcing people to log in with their MS email account which they may not have or want or again forcing people into complicated work arounds. The implicit privacy issues of recall if it was rolled out as planned.
Ads in the windows UI both exiting and planned. The fact that they have discussed the idea of making Windows a monthly/annual fee.
Then the carry overs from 10 The fact that the start menu search is less useful than any linux DE or windows XP Re-enabling crap that people disabled on purpose Certain kinds of links opening in Edge even if people use chrome
Wait i have w11 in my laptop... i dont have a windows account sign in. Is that a forthcoming change?
Ads are fucked, thats fucked.
But it mainly seems like microsoft policy, not necessarily w11 itself is the issue?
I ignorantly think a monthly subscription would never happen and we'd see mass linux adoption.
I have a dual boot in my near term plans for my desktop. I would pull that trigger immediately if ads or subscriptions materialized.
iirc it is during install now. You have to do things that are way beyond the average user's knowledge or ability to enable a local account.
Ads are...already a thing. Shit like putting candy crush which allows you to spend real money to pay to win. Search suggestions in the start menu. The app store is an attempt at an Apple style money grab except the money grab only exists on the apple side because its the only way to get apps on the machine and MS never got much out its store in comparison.
Ads and subscriptions would already have happened if they had succeeded in using secure boot to lock machines out of alternative OS
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windows 11 isn' all bad. It made my mother ask me to install linux on her computer.
No one outside of tech communities does that
Even the people I know that are otherwise relatively tech savvy don't do this.
Not to say it's a good operating system, though.
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