70% of the market. Half of those computers can’t even run windows 11. Good to see Microsoft taking charge in the fight against the environment by asking tens of millions of people to throw away their perfectly good computers and buy new ones
For real. I’m genuinely trying to grasp why. Is it seriously just so they can require secure boot and then say Windows 11 is secure from ransomware even though that’s a feature of the motherboard and not the OS?
They have added so much ad stuff and other garbage that the OS is slowing down, to combat the user perception that the OS is slow they have increased the hardware requirement.
The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it’s probably a Mac.
This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.
Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they’re necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.
So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.
… while demanding “NPUs” that don’t really exist, so they can force you to use the AI nonsense grafted deep into the guts of the system, powered by constantly spying on everything you do.
I’ve been easing myself into using Mint, but it’s hard to use any Linux distro when all I know about computers is what I’ve been taught by programming memes. I can easily look up all the acronyms, but there’s only so much I can glean from Wikipedia pages that look like they belong on the VX Junkies subreddit
70% of the market. Half of those computers can’t even run windows 11. Good to see Microsoft taking charge in the fight against the environment by asking tens of millions of people to throw away their perfectly good computers and buy new ones
For real. I’m genuinely trying to grasp why. Is it seriously just so they can require secure boot and then say Windows 11 is secure from ransomware even though that’s a feature of the motherboard and not the OS?
They have added so much ad stuff and other garbage that the OS is slowing down, to combat the user perception that the OS is slow they have increased the hardware requirement.
The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it’s probably a Mac.
This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.
Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they’re necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.
So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.
I see I sideload of Gentleman Agreement with the hardware vendors here:
Everyone wins. Well, the usual suspects win as usual. The environment and the customer can go kiss Mr Gates and Mr Dell’s asses.
Windows 10 can’t take screenshots at will…
That they will admit, at least.
I can’t wait for some new bargain Linux machines.
… while demanding “NPUs” that don’t really exist, so they can force you to use the AI nonsense grafted deep into the guts of the system, powered by constantly spying on everything you do.
Or you could just use Mint.
I’ve been easing myself into using Mint, but it’s hard to use any Linux distro when all I know about computers is what I’ve been taught by programming memes. I can easily look up all the acronyms, but there’s only so much I can glean from Wikipedia pages that look like they belong on the VX Junkies subreddit
The trick is to say “[thing] is bullshit!” on a forum site and have people rush to explain why you are an eejit. Way better than Google these days.
(Case in point: if you use a terminal to do any file operations with a wildcard, use
./*for all the stuff in this directory, instead of just*.)