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Death nail for Windows
A new malaphor minted in the wild!
The two expressions you merged were:
I just read it with a southern twang
"The final death in the coffin" would have some... interesting implications in a couple ways
Edit: also "death nail" means Microsoft started smoking
Linux users are incredible in their belief that issues of privacy, security, or data autonomy will push the masses away from what they're used to (OSX/Windows, Facebook/Reddit, etc) and towards better options (Linux, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc)
No, mate, absolutely nothing is gonna happen to Windows. It's gonna be perfectly fine. If we're lucky, there will be a 1-3% dip in user base towards Linux, but there's exactly 0% chance for a mass exodus that would make the upper management stop and think for a second.
I think they were assuming that people would use linux to dodge these restrictions. Ex. a teen who can't use a site on windows/ios might boot linux in an attempt to make it work. But as others have pointed out, it's more likely that sites will just blanket-flag a linux useragent as being used by a child to be safe. And then a linux user changing their useragent to get around this will then be hw attestation challenged like any other OS. So yeah, it's just going to make it more inconvenient to use an open system.
Unless a Linux UA allows for plausible deniability.
It could happen!
The first time a child is caught using Linux to circumvent this law, they'll update the law.
Death knell.