I'm always really hesitant about those Windows installations that have been messed with - not only do you never know exactly what's been done to them, but a lot of Windows services are designed to operate as a package deal and don't fail gracefully when other parts of the OS they depend on aren't there. Things start failing in new and exciting ways.
True, but I still like playing around. I'm old enough to have done the same by manually deleting win95 dll files.
You could also argue that the Android tablet market is strong and well, thanks to the Amazon Fire line, but nobody would seriously say that unless they're desperate to downplay just what a juggernaut the iPad is. The Amazon Fire, just like the Chromebook, are low-cost computers designed around Amazon and Google's services, respectively. And, if you really consider Chromebooks a proper Linux experience, you're right back to square one when it comes to privacy concerns, as it's now Google that's spying on you.
"The Linux Fault Threshold is the point in any conversation about Linux at which your interlocutor stops talking about how your problem might be solved under Linux and starts talking about how it isn't Linux's fault that your problem cannot be solved under Linux."
Put Xubuntu on it. You'll simultaneously piss off Windowsfags and Linuxfags, as the more militant members of the latter group don't consider Ubuntu or any of its forks to be "real" Linux.
I've used Linux before, and I know Chromebooks are weak. This is just going to be for web surfing really. I'm thinking Manjaro and kde plasma desktop.
This is awesome! The next time I drop a Linux install on a laptop aging out of modern Windows performance demands I'll have to set it up with this UI theme.
I'd say that we're just talking over semantics there. Windows-esque/Windows-like/Emulating Windows/Great Value vs. Brand
, etc. To me it's all the same. And I agree with the puzzlement over trying to move away from what worked sonwell for so long. Thats why Win8.1 came out so soon after the holy clusterfuck known as Win8. It was a bridge too far, and not suitable for the still dominant PC market for the time.I 100% agree, NOT BEN AFFLECK.
It's always "security" being pushed as the main reason to upgrade, and I think I might have said something similar earlier in this thread, but MS has always acted as if you don't immediately "upgrade" to the latest and greatest OS, or download the newest update, l337 h4x0r5! straight from 2600.com are gonna hack your computer, burn down your house, and drain your grandma's pension account empty.
But I agree that the defining motivation is more than likely to spur more hardware sales. As you pointed out, there is a somewhat of a technological stagnation in the PC industry, at least in the home consumer market. Simply put, most people simply have no need for bleeding edge top of the line technology, and when it comes to CPUs, I feel that unless there is a major technological breakthrough soon, we are close to reaching the physical limitations of processor efficiency and design. The common PC architectures and backwards compatibility for the most part doesn't "help" as far as future sales either, so planned obsolescence isn't really a factor as much as it used to be. And you really can't pull an Apple and do a forced across the board update that conveniently bricks older devices, although they certainly are trying to. As I've said before my gacked out ~2011 era laptop will run circles around most modern out of the box laptops with "faster" and "more efficient" components. They might have more RAM, a threadripper CPU, super crisp and clear AMOLED screen, and the latest and greatest SSD setup, but they also have a bloated OS, too many background processes running, and other hungry hungry hippos chomping away at the overall efficiency.
I'd say that we're just talking over semantics there. Windows-esque/Windows-like/Emulating Windows/Great Value vs. Brand
I 100% agree, NOT BEN AFFLECK.
It's always "security" being pushed as the main reason to upgrade, and I think I might have said something similar earlier in this thread, but MS has always acted as if you don't immediately "upgrade" to the latest and greatest OS, or download the newest update, l337 h4x0r5! straight from 2600.com are gonna hack your computer, burn down your house, and drain your grandma's pension account empty.
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Microsoft and Reddit soy IT types. I have an old computer running Windows 7 that I use as a file server and a torrent box and if you tell them that, they'll act like you just raped a baby.
On the flip side of that, I know a few people in the retrocomputing scene who go to retardedly absurd lengths to "secure" their home network just so they can play around with Windows 95. I'm talking like, firewalls, VLAN segmentation, MAC filtering, hell, even physical airgapped isolation. Like, why go through all that trouble when you're not going to play with your old 386 for more than half an hour, and nobody even remembers what WinNuke is?
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Install Windows 10 LTSC. That'll see your Dad out for the rest of the decade.
Maybe some of these guys just enjoy noodling about with hardcore network security at home for shits and giggles. 1337 h4x0r network shit can be fun to play with.
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They don't want an os that "looks like" windows. It's more they want it to act like windows, feel like it, have the same menu flow. If a simple to use linux variant doesn't do a good enough job of that the it is a moot point to normies. It not supporting the software they have used for years by default does not help. There are plenty of people that can learn. Most just won't. As has been said.
