Opinion: Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there’s a problem
Windows is doing its best to shake me off. It keeps reminding me that it’s ditching Win 10 and I’d better upgrade. Except I won’t, because my (perfectly good) computer isn’t up to spec for 11. So in effect it’s telling me that I’d better hurry up and decide on a Linux distro, tick tock.
It’s interesting to see something as mainstream as The Register seriously suggest folks start ditching Windows and their preferred alternative seems to be Linux. Perhaps the year of the Linux Desktop won’t forever be “next year”.
Given the number of windows machines that exist, isn’t it already an addiction?
According to physiology, a bad habit becomes an addiction when it negatively impacts your life.
It’s already an addiction.
Ok then you linux nerds should put together a drop in replacement distro that grannies can use
Until then you will always be hobbyists
I used to put Linux Lite on old, crappy laptops and sell them to little old ladies. All you have to do is show them how to get on the internet.
So, where is the issue?
I installed Fedora a few years back on a PC of an 70 yest old woman. Reason: EOL of windows 7.
Last week I visited her. Fedora is up2date, no issues, und besides the initial guided tour I did not provide any support.
So, apparently, we HAVE already those distributions. So:
what is your point?
What’s wrong with it being for “hobbyists?”
It is great for anyone who wants to actual have control over there own computing. It isn’t and never was for “grannies”
Until you can get the grannies to adopt, linux will always be a novelty for desktops
That’s the point I was trying to make
And in true linux fanatic fashion, you are incapable of understanding just how terrible a product linux in general is
By that logic it will always be a novelty
The thing is, the real Linux user base isn’t granny. It is the users who are interested in computers or computer related things. Linux isn’t for everybody but it isn’t a novelty either. Being a novelty would mean it is has no functional value which isn’t the case as it does have some market share.
Also there is no reason granny can’t be a computer nerd
The ‘real’ linux user should be everyone, that’s the point
maybe the real linux was in our hearts all along
Maybe the real market leader desktop OS is one you don’t need to spend a quarter of all your waking hours learning how to maintenance.
I’m paying Microsoft $9 a month for something and I can’t find out what and can’t cancel it. I’m going to have to nuke my credit card to get it to stop and I don’t even know if that’ll work.
sounds like a forgotten minecraft realms host
Oh shit that’s helpful thank you, might be Minecraft I tried to introduce to my kid years ago or something like that? I’ll check thank you
Windows 11 isn’t even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.
I think MS shot itself in the foot by doing the whole “we’ll just iterate on this one forever” pivot to data gathering thing. At least in the good old days of Windows Me they could point at the next refresh as a clean break, even if it wasn’t.
I ran Windows Me for maybe a year, by the way. Mostly out of morbid curiosity. It wasn’t even that bad, as I remember it.
Windows 11 isn’t even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.
In terms of spyware and enshittification it sure as Hell is!
And that’s the measure that matters here: not mistakes, but deliberate abuse of the user.
