Honestly... I wouldn't take MS' place on a bet... Because of their market position, everybody expects them to make one OS that runs on every fucking shitbox made in the last 2 decades from Ifni knows what parts that they have zero control over, make it so every shiny idiotic gewgaw being flogged on FurkBook as well as your 20-year-old checkbook software will run on it, make it all secure (even other people's 6-layer dipshit software) and keep it secure in a world full of ne'er-do-wells for another 2 decades, and since it is well-known they sell in bulk to OEMs for cheap, they don't even expect to pay for all that personalized toe-jam-licking service, all the while damning them for engaging in the same datamining that the same people who are bitching aboot it all
volunteer for on other online "services".
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Honestly, it's a wonder it works
at all, much less as well as it does.
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Don't get me wrong; I understand the gripes aboot 11. And I will be one of the millions staying away in droves on my personal machines until they get their shit sorted, just like I did with Win7 and everything that came between it and Win10.
And before you say
Bleepity-BleepOS, or
Honk-on-BoboNIX, realize that I just spent weeks with a dozen different *NIX variants on my Intel MacPro, all supposedly optimized for Macs, and it was like being teabagged by Satan every 5 minutes with one thing or another.
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In the end, the
only variant that actually successfully installed
and was usable was a plain vanilla build of Cinnamon/Ubuntu; the one *NIX subgenus that seems to be pretty universally despised around here.
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I see folks running around with their hair on fire in here (okay, slight exaggeration, but still), however the fact is I have a life and shit to get done. I want privacy, but first I
need a machine that works without building the OS by hand. I don't build my car from the ground up anymore either, for the same reason; I just buy one that runs.
Point being... I see a lot of OS-related ideology being bandied about here as if it were compelling
need; and that is just not so for a lot of people.
mnem
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