I swear, Microsoft YEARNS to fail. Dunno who is running the show over there but they’re doing a great job of being terrible for their brand.
they’re losing so much money on AI/datacenters, they are just flailing at this point.
Meanwhile MSFT (the stock) goes up up up
Yes but thats lifted by bubbles.
Nice metaphor, I wish few would pop without hurting too badly the idiots that believe the lies and more importantly without hurting anyone who pointed out how ridiculous it all was. Unfortunately I’m rather convinced people at the helm of Microsoft, OpenAI, VC pumping the bumbles, are financially smart enough to be entirely disconnected from any consequence of their own actions.
They don’t need to be smart. They have money. The system is for them. Shocks will be absorbed by parts of society that exist to be stepped on, who need to be disciplined and stay under pressure to function without risk of unionization/revolt.
The only thing that trickles down are costs.
You might want to check their financial reports buddy lol. Actually I know you won’t want to, because they’ll make you upset. You literally could not be more wrong if you tried.
Why do they need to test it? M$ has been doing this on the Xbox platform for over a year now.
This will drive more people to Linux. The forced migration to Win11 is already doing wonders with Linux adoption.
Are there any actual statistics showing this ongoing migration, or are we just assuming?
It is up to aproximately 4% on desktops worldwide. source
Consumer or business? I can see businesses but I have yet to run into a consumer, who isn’t an enthusiast, who is even aware of Linux.
Speculation on the data seems to imply that Windows is losing users to Android/iOS; thus an apparent rise in Linux. There is no way to tell how much of the drive is what I just said or the Windows -> Linux.
Disgusting $hit. Hopefully this will drive more people to Linux.
This shit is making me more & more glad I switched back to Linux. I’m even thinking of actually learning to code to continue its support. These businesses are just fully mask off at this point.
So glad I just switched to Linux.
(laughs in Debian)
Lmao. Genius, hope whoever suggested this got a raise. Can imagine the meeting where it has been decided. "Hey, have we thought about fullscreen ads for something we want to push on people?” "Genius idea, Maxwell! Go home to your wife and kids and tell them a big fat bonus is coming to their smart father!”
Also Microsoft: “Why aren’t people upgrading to Windows 11?”
From Fedora 42? Sounds like a downgrade.
This is so funny. My wife purchased a Yealink headset for work, and her laptop runs W11. When we got the headset I tried it on my Fedora 42 laptop and had a meeting for about 30 minutes, only because I wanted to see if it would run on Linux. Of course, nor only did it work, it was plug & play, and was spectacular in sound quality and mic noise cancelation.
So I set it up on her W laptop, and here comes the “download this”, “install drivers” and “install apps” bullshit that I had all but forgotten about since I made the leap to Linux over 8 years ago. All this only to have it regularly disconnect mid-meetings (spoiler, she ended up using the integrated speakers and mic the rest of the week).
Windows is made to spy, intrude and annoy users. Even the devices ‘made for Windows’ work way better and easier on Linux, and with way less friction.
My kids are now 12 and 10 and have always used Linux exclusively. Only now they are being exposed to Windows at school, and they both hate it so much that they get home and have chosen to do some distro hopping over the weekends 🤣🤣
they get home and have chosen to do some distro hopping over the weekends
Gotta get that Microstank off. Respect. ✊
They really need to name the next version “Windows 76”. That should have the people throwing money at them.
“Nobody wants to Windows anymore!”
Help LibreOffice developers replace Microsoft 365: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/
Or if you have skills + time: https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org/
I know that coding time is much more expensive than I can afford, but if I had the money I would clean up and fully-feature their macro system.
Do it! At this point Linux can do anything windows can do, I want them to fuck it up as much as possible, Fuck Microsoft !
At this point Linux can do anything windows can do
IT guy here, this is just not true at all.
So far I have never seen anything on Linux being able to replace functions like GPOs.
FreeIPA + any mechanism to deploy configuration files.
Or, go full circle and manage thin clients connecting to a central Linux mainframe x)
Actually, i’m learning to Go to do just that. GPO’s are basicly just configuration management. And there’s Ansible, Chef, Puppet. These all work on Linux.
Irrelevant, all the ads will be disabled in iot / enterprise anyway and they can afford to Make their own software or at least tire someone to, the only reason they don’t have full page ads btw give them just enough to keep them wanting more.
No, it is highly relevant, for two reasons:
- You specifically said, I even quoted you, that Linux could do anything Windows could, this is false.
- Organizations has relied on the central management of Windows workstations for decades at this point. It is one of the biggest selling points of Windows outside of home computers, until this is rectified, I don’t see Linux or Mac dominating any time soon.
Subscriptions? Who pays a subscription for Windows?
For Microsoft 365 / Office 365.
Massgrave PS script solves this. Yes for 365 too. Some ISPs block it so have to use a VPN to run it.
Malware for Linux exists, and has for a long time. It’s just not as omnipresent as windows malware, even adjusting for market share.
Also, often has different goals to windows malware
Laughs in Linux
I hope it last, web enshitification may bring us back to the 2000s where that one site requires internet explorer, this one won’t allow DRM content on non windows platforms…
It’s just around the corner.
At this point if Microsoft released windows 12 for like 200$ with out any of the adware spying shit I probably would buy it. Hell make it 500$. They would probably make more than what they do selling your data.
The sole reason for me owning a windows pc is that I use vMix which requires it as well a a nvidia graphics card. What I did is clean bloatware with Win11Debloat. Up to now nobody has been able to tell me how to effectively run vMix on Linux.
The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn’t this essentially what OBS Studio does?
Essentially yes. I am very experienced with OBS Studio and now I am adding vMix to my portfolio because it’s capable things OBS cannot do. vMix is programmed to do the videoprocessing directly on the GPU while the CPU is only handling audio and the UI. Unfortunately this works only on Windows systems.
Pretty sure the suggested usage of OBS is to use your GPU for hardware encoding video so not sure what the difference you’re describing is.
