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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.
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.
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.
I swear, if Microoft pulls a few more of these no-good shenanigans, I might start pondering on considering the possibility of perhąps trying out Linux
With Linux Mint it's so incredibly easy. Believe me.
Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop's built in speaker audio working, which I've heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.
You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child's play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.
Try out librewolf or softmaker (there is somewhere a free version) and other alternatives of programs that you need that at best are foss and at worst also run on linux.
That way you get a smoother learning curve
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.
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?
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$. They would probably make more than what they do selling your data.
Linux is free
They sent me a survey. I told them they're driving me to Linux and libre office.
Why do they need to test it? M$ has been doing this on the Xbox platform for over a year now.
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.
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.
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.
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