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stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoDon’t know don’t care, anyone with half a brain saw windows was a sinking ship around the time they started putting ads in a $150 software but if that wasn’t enough forcing you to decline ads every 2 weeks or whatever is just psychopathic behavior so is the degraded search, I unironically would choose chrome Os or Ios over windows theses days especially since the world has moved to browsers and os doesn’t matter but any way you look at it the steam deck has proven windows has about as necessary as AOL these days, if you’re still using windows that’s a you problem, backwards compatibility be dammed you should not be relying on this company for anything crucial it can’t be trusted.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Good job being so smart, mama’s little smart man! You still have to eat your veggies before you can have any dessert though!
More seriously, the overwhelming majority of businesses use Windows as their end user facing desktop OSes. You’re legitimately just being a myopic asshat if you think that Windows can’t be trusted for anything important. (Inb4 you bring up Crowdstrike, which wasn’t a Windows specific issue, but a “we have code running at kernel level” issue, and hit Linux roughly three months prior to the big clusterfuck)
Also, your bit about $150 cost for the OS is dumb too. The average user is buying a prebuilt with the OS preinstalled. Technically they are paying for it, but it’s a wacky discounted OEM license fee baked into the full cost. Anyone not buying a rig with Windows preinstalled can use it unlicensed, can transfer license from pretty much any older Windows OS install from the last 20 years, can just use massgrave to activate it for free, or could go buy a discounted OEM license that they can only install to one machine. The full price license allows for install on multiple machines, which you don’t really need.
My point is, very few people are paying full price for a Windows license.
Full disclosure, I agree that Microsoft is a shit company. But this elitist shit is just stupid. Especially when it’s almost pure posturing.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh no the poor companies making money off a product might have to update a product made in 1992😱😱😱how will they ever recuperate an investment that is free every 32 years.
Also a Monopoly is able to use monopolistic behavior to force companies to use their product and mask it as “FREE”*** then still charge the user with ads is not a good thing just look at the price delta between equivalent windows and chrome books if you don’t believe me.
IM not saying you have to get the L word I would literally get a MacBook at this point.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
What? Huh? The fuck are you even trying to say with that first paragraph and what connection does it have with my comment?
My point was that for someone calling people still willing to use Windows stupid, your lack of knowledge about the actual cost (and how almost no user is paying the full cost) makes you look incompetent at best.
There was precisely zero there lamenting Microsoft missing out on money. Check my host lemmy instance, it’s the piracy one. There’s a reason I name dropped the best open source tool for tricking Windows into thinking you have a valid license. Steal your OS, I don’t give a fuck. The only “validly” licensed personal machine I have is my main desktop, and only because it was my first time doing a manual customized Win 10 install so I didn’t want to fuck around with faking the license to save myself $20 for an OEM license.
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Which brings me to my next point. For someone being so bull headedly elitist about how bad Windows is, and how smart they are, you’re completely unaware of how easy it is to make Windows work for you and disable all the user hostile shit like ads.
It’s called install the Pro version of the OS and use Group Policy manager. 90% of the settings are clearly labeled in there too, like “Disable Cortana Internet Search”, “Disable OneDrive integration”.