I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.
I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin. As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.
I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago. My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.
what, the actual fuck, is “S” mode?
ctrl-alt-t “install that shit”!
A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That’s trash. The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn’t found its way into yet. The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.
Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.
In windows defense (no means sticking up for them now) It was a pretty unobtrusive OS in Windows 7 and arguably in Windows 8 (but don’t get me started with the UI/UX choices). Windows 10 was decent and for the first year or two felt good running it. But after that yikes…… Then windows 11 comes to the scene and I lost the plot. Looking forward to October though when people throw out their 7th Gen Processor rigs. I got no issues rocking an I7-6700K that is not AI ready
I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows. I have a bar, the menu is left. I was a pirate before anything and I learned on windows. There was a point where it made sense that the world used it, I think that time has passed. I really am such a pleb that hardware issues only effect me if it doesn’t work. In this I guess I am saying that the freedom to abuse and break my hardware is important. I don’t want to sell my soul or be told “no”. install the program, I know it was written for windows. I don’t want a microsoft account.
Edit: my drunk ass had said older(er)
Are people going to throw them out? With tarrifs especially i think a lot of people will just use unsecure hardware.
Large corporations with any semblance of a security policy will be dumping theirs for sure. Even if everyone in the organisation needed one, the cost of a new(er) laptop is a drop in the bucket compared to other expenses, especially when compared to outages caused by cybersecurity issues.
Most of them already did. My own laptop is a latitude 7400 i got after a business replaced it for cheap. They update their lineups regularly anyway usually. So most will be windows 11 ready. I think this laptop would be able to run windows 11 too altho idk cuz i use debian and have never tried it.