Linux has been a superior OS for a while, especially since Steam's efforts to port games over to it.
Only reason many people hang on, including some in my household, is platform exclusive tools like Adobe.
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Well, Adobe is not "household" software. :-)
But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more...
Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)
it is when everyone pirates it
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Deal! (i'm swithing to Linux)
Have fun! It's a learning curve, but a very accomplishable learning curve, and at the end you get to say that you don't use microsoft
Good riddance
Great strategy to force users have a bad experience while your platform is in decline to a free and user friendly alternative. Very smart of MS, as per usual.
Joke's on them. I'm not about to use Windows 11 anyway
If no workaround can be found, I may finally be able to get Mrs. Erinaceus switched to Linux...
That's fine by me.
There needs to be some sort of EU directive that once a hardware device sells enough units they MUST provide the equivalent software features and functions available on windows for Linux, and not just a plain driver with no config options.
Imagine being able to buy hardware knowing you can configure it in Linux without relying on some unsupported thing made by the community.
11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, and be free from this and other M$ bullshit.
OOBE doesn't sounds too much OOBE to me...
Out Of Bullcrap Experience
I only use windows for gaming. If Windows somehow fucks it up so much that I can play the majority of games in Linux on Steam, then I no longer have a use for them. I don't use windows for work, and all of my normal computer use cases Linux is fully capable of, I'll basically be forced over to Ubunutu or something, with a cracked Win11 VM for new games that don't have linux releases.
I suppose linux graphic drivers and performance are still an issue, but that will surely only get better, especially as the windows desktop segment of GPU sales dries up.
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