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Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse

cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

All software is either shit to begin with or becomes shit when it gets big enough. If a Linux distro were forced to maintain as much legacy cruft as Windows it would be shit too.

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Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

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- cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.
  
  This is true, but isn’t what I was referring to. The problem MS are facing is not what they themselves have built, but the huge number of apps that other businesses have built over the years which prevent MS from rewriting or deprecating many parts of the bloated zombie that is now Windows.
  
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
False dichotomy. That was a business decision with externalities foisted upon users.

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