He means that windows is built on a fairly open system that allows too to install and manage your own drivers, updates, etc. Over the last several years MS has been trying to lock this down and be more like a managed service/phone, not a computer you own.
If the PC were to be invented today, he’s saying it would be like a phone with limited freedom and most people wouldn’t care. He’s right and that’s sad. We take for granted what we have with older versions of Windows and Linux. It is being pulled away from us and that’s why I’m trying to move off of Windows instead of go to 11.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think they mean that if the standard OS was Linux instead of Windows, and therefore everybody had full control of their computers, that if windows was suddenly released and installed on all pc’s instead of Linux, people would still shrug and be fine with it.
hagelslager@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The Linux forums would probably be even more insufferable for a while, considering an influx of newbies to what’s basically a power user sphere.
socialsecurity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Not an arch user clearly