Someone’s ears are ringing…
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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Tux has two giant abs?
Our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds, will welcome you with open arms.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linus Torvalds, is in fact, GNU/Linus Torvalds, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linus Torvalds.
I mean it's the first bullet point. There is a path and MS provided it. MS wants to turn Windows into recurring revenue so they start charging $30/year for patches under the excuse of Win 11.
$30 a year to start. If they are that enough people are willing to pay it, it will inevitability go up. Imagine paying $10-20 a month to use your operating system lol
Around 25 years ago, my hardware guy and I read a roadmap from microsoft. The bottom line was, they wanted to move back to a thin client model. They told everyone what they were going to do. You don't have to imagine, they told everyone 25 years ago that this is what is coming. You will be paying monthly.
I remember this too, but can't seem to find it.
It was called the October document, Halloween document, or something like that.
Why did you jump from $30/year to $120-$240 a year? You seriously think Microsoft would just randomly quadruple (at least) the cost?
You seriously think they wouldn't, if they thought they could get away with it?
There is no world where the retail cost of a software product was literally quadrupled based purely on demand, lol.
Accept that it was a ridiculous exaggeration on your part.
The funniest part of this is that it's already ridiculous at the lowest end of the range you gave, but you went up to $240/year. "Oh yeah, if lots of people buy it, we'll just 8x the price, surely that won't torpedo the sales numbers".
You should check usernames before replying.
Microsofts plan
Shubbabang! There's a name I haven't heard since the Homestuck days.
The solution is, and has always rhymed with Linux.
rhymed with Linux.
Schlinux?
A Canuck's buttocks.
Yeah! At this point, Windows is even worse than Minix!
Unix?
Hello, OG. 🤘🏼
Trash article to boot, if you read it and saw they were quoting another article the whole time, why didn't you post the primary source?
This is the end of the road for microsoft.
Yep, already gone and working to convert others to Linux.
Linux.
That said, it’s not for everyone. I don’t want to be tech support for relatives who can’t figure out how to use AirPods or how not download more bloatware during the course of general home computer use.
Needing one patch for one thing would mean a new computer because “nothing works” for at least one relative.
this right here is ultimately why I haven't moved my relatives to Mint. It usually works but, about time it doesn't I don't want to have to explain to someone who doesn't know what a browser is, how to run commands on the terminal or how to find an error log.
Yeah there's a huge difference between "works 98% of the time" and "works 99.8%" of the time, even though they are both "works most of the time".
i will however point out that the 0.2% of the time that windows doesn't work has in my experience been it refusing to use the perfectly functional ethernet connection with absolutely no way to interrogate what it thinks is wrong, then i plug the same cable into a linux laptop and it works perfectly fine
Funny ethernet was the most common issue with Linux at a previous workplace. For some reason it would only get like 10 Mbps. Buggy driver presumably. I'm not sure they ever solved it (I had a Mac.)
We're talking about normal people here so they don't really have the option of debugging it either. They can only Google for other people's solutions or try resetting/rebooting everything. So although on Linux it's technically possible to fix any issue (e.g. on Windows leaving a playstation controller plugged in prevents sleep and there's nothing I can do to fix it), in practice on Linux there's nothing normal people can do to fix that sort of stuff either.
Haha, yes, with windows, you don't correct the errant setting, you reset the network settings and try again.
I’ve been considering putting a parent on Fedora Kinoite. Less to break, and they understand the App Store concept so just using flatpacks isn’t far fetched for them.
(edit: parent, not patent. Curse you autocorrect!)
putting a patent on something that already exists? what are you on about?
Whoops. Auto correct. Parent, not patent. I have a parent who keeps getting their machine infected with garbage.
It happens all the time. Nintendo is currently using this tactic to harass the Palworld developers.
Patents are unethical and need to be abolished.