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Seeing this makes me really sad for the countless people who are forced to use Windows, most of them because they simply do not know better. I have a Windows i

• herbst 3y ago
  Same here. I even have WMs wake up after a year of not using them just to watch them instantly break themselfs. It's not fun, it's 2022 and fixing OS level issues shouldn't be what we spend our time on
• pjmlp 3y ago
  As proven by Android, and Netbooks before it, having OEMs shipping Linux distributions won't change it.
  • ht85 3y ago
    Of course, because linux targeted at non-tech users allows greedy publishers to do the same things as microsoft. I used to think educating people was a solution, which it might be to some extent... truth is without regulations brought and enforced by people who understand the modern digital world and have the end users best interest in mind (lol), the cat will never go back to the box.
• warner25 3y ago
  Yes, I keep an old laptop around with Windows 10, which sometimes goes months without powering on. When I do boot it again, it potentially takes hours of non-deterministically finding and downloading and installing updates over multiple reboots. Compare to powering on a Linux machine and bringing it up-to-date in one shot with "sudo dnf upgrade."