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  • Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux?

    From vallor@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Wed Mar 19 23:44:05 2025
    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:56:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vrfb29$1lo98$1@dont-email.me>:

    “Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks”

    <https://www.theverge.com/news/632327/microsoft-windows-11-system-
    device-specs-recommendations>

    Of course, it’s not their hardware that “sucks”, it’s the bloated Windows OS that the poor vict^H^H^H^Husers are trying to run on it.

    I had to shake my head today -- bought a 1U server from SuperMicro,
    and the only OS options it offered pre-installed were either
    Windows -- or nothing.

    I picked "nothing" of course, because it's going to run Ubuntu Linux.

    (n.g.'s snecked)

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    OS: Linux 6.14.0-rc7 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
    "Reality seems to be a constant intrusion on my dreams!"

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Mar 20 15:10:19 2025
    vallor wrote:

    I had to shake my head today -- bought a 1U server from SuperMicro,
    and the only OS options it offered pre-installed were either
    Windows -- or nothing.

    At least you had the option of a blank HD with no payment of a Windows
    license. That's not always an option, of course.

    We had one trolling fsckwit defend such monopolistic behavior, arguing
    that providing the option of a blank HD would be prohibitively
    expensive for OEM's to offer. I couldn't make this stuff up.

    --
    "It's not free and it costs money." - trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel",
    arguing that it's "too expensive" for Dell to offer the option of a
    blank hard drive

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