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  • The Reality Of Microslop

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 6 23:06:02 2025
    From the link:

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1713234/microsoft-would-really-like-you-to-stop-using-windows-10-this-year

    "Windows 11 is no longer a stand-alone operating system, Windows 11 is an advertising
    platform that's still stuck with the Windows NT kernel, network stack fiddledybits
    liberally borrowed from BSD (while giving absolutely nothing back in return), and
    a bunch of user space garbage they keep changing to try to convince you it's "NEW!".
    (Which is a deception at best, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for most,
    and outright lies, damned lies, and forced upgrades at worst.) And the TPM2.0 ruse
    is complete corporate garbage."

    Is any sapient human being still using that crap Microslop?

    No way. Microslop serves only idiots -- and there are still plenty
    of those.

    Whew! As the saying goes: Never underestimate the power of stupid
    people in large numbers.

    GNU/Linux (excluding Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch, etc.)
    caters to the enlightened portion (minority) of humanity.

    --
    Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Andrzej Matuch@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jan 6 19:22:48 2025
    On 2025-01-06 18:20, Joel wrote:
    Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

    From the link:

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1713234/microsoft-would-really-like-you-to-stop-using-windows-10-this-year

    "Windows 11 is no longer a stand-alone operating system, Windows 11 is an advertising
    platform that's still stuck with the Windows NT kernel, network stack fiddledybits
    liberally borrowed from BSD (while giving absolutely nothing back in return), and
    a bunch of user space garbage they keep changing to try to convince you it's "NEW!".
    (Which is a deception at best, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for most,
    and outright lies, damned lies, and forced upgrades at worst.) And the TPM2.0 ruse
    is complete corporate garbage."


    The Winfanboys will say just keep running Win10, as if it's a
    solution, Linux is the only meaningful refuge.

    Windows users soon won't have a choice but to adopt 11 if they want to
    continue using updates. I imagine that a lot of them will upgrade, but
    those who like their machines or don't have the money to upgrade might
    consider Linux for the first time. It might be a good idea to be
    available to them when they inevitably face a few hurdles in their
    adoption of the new operating system.

    --
    Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
    Telegram: @AndrzejMatuch
    Zephyrus G14 GA401QM on Fedora 41
    KDE supporting member

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Joel on Tue Jan 7 00:35:23 2025
    On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:20:42 -0500, Joel wrote:

    Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

    From the link:

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1713234/microsoft-would-really- like-you-to-stop-using-windows-10-this-year

    "Windows 11 is no longer a stand-alone operating system, Windows 11 is
    an advertising platform that's still stuck with the Windows NT kernel, >>network stack fiddledybits liberally borrowed from BSD (while giving >>absolutely nothing back in return), and a bunch of user space garbage
    they keep changing to try to convince you it's "NEW!".
    (Which is a deception at best, rearranging the deck chairs on the
    Titanic for most,
    and outright lies, damned lies, and forced upgrades at worst.) And the >>TPM2.0 ruse is complete corporate garbage."


    The Winfanboys will say just keep running Win10, as if it's a solution,
    Linux is the only meaningful refuge.

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/microsoft_2025_windows_refresh/

    Buying a Windows 11 box and reverting it to 10 is a bit extreme.

    "Canalys analyst Kieren Jessop even told The Register in an earlier
    interview that it wasn't uncommon for enterprises to "downgrade their
    newly procured Win11 devices to Win10" because the aging OS was more
    stable and had greater compatibility with other systems."

    Other than a couple of Insider builds I haven't had problems will 11. I
    brought my two work machines up to 24H2 with no drama.

    Along those lines I upgraded the Fedora box to 41 with no problem after
    fixing a nagging little quirk. I had installed Fedora on the HDD and moved
    it to the new SSD. On a reboot it was a crapshoot what I would wind up
    with. I unplugged the HDD's SATA cable and all was good. One of the
    stranger features was sometimes having the HDD sda3 mounted as /home,
    sometimes the SSD sdb3.

    I do not consider that a Fedora or Linux problem, only a weird hardware
    problem I created myself.

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  • From Andrzej Matuch@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jan 6 20:02:47 2025
    On 2025-01-06 19:37, Joel wrote:
    Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
    On 2025-01-06 18:20, Joel wrote:
    Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

    From the link:

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1713234/microsoft-would-really-like-you-to-stop-using-windows-10-this-year

    "Windows 11 is no longer a stand-alone operating system, Windows 11 is an advertising
    platform that's still stuck with the Windows NT kernel, network stack fiddledybits
    liberally borrowed from BSD (while giving absolutely nothing back in return), and
    a bunch of user space garbage they keep changing to try to convince you it's "NEW!".
    (Which is a deception at best, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for most,
    and outright lies, damned lies, and forced upgrades at worst.) And the TPM2.0 ruse
    is complete corporate garbage."

    The Winfanboys will say just keep running Win10, as if it's a
    solution, Linux is the only meaningful refuge.

    Windows users soon won't have a choice but to adopt 11 if they want to
    continue using updates. I imagine that a lot of them will upgrade, but
    those who like their machines or don't have the money to upgrade might
    consider Linux for the first time. It might be a good idea to be
    available to them when they inevitably face a few hurdles in their
    adoption of the new operating system.


    We will help if people get woke to Linux.

    Awakened, not woke. Woke is synonymous with mental retardation whereas
    awakened means that they were sleeping and are now conscious.

    --
    Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
    Telegram: @AndrzejMatuch
    Zephyrus G14 GA401QM on Fedora 41
    KDE supporting member

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