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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)

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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[-] jigsaw250@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Right now, my Windows 10 installation is pretty bloatless and is easily revertable when an update wants to change things. However I'm definitely looking for a more mainstream Linux solution because I know these times won't last.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We would need large companies and developers to start making their applications for linux and right now thats very hard because linux has 2500 different package managers and no one wants to maintain version of their apps for even the top 5 linux packaging methods, so unless that changes they will continue to make windows/mac only apps

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Companies have got around this by only officially supporting one distro, like Steam with SteamOS (I think they also support Ubuntu). Steam also do static linking of the common libraries inside of ~/.local/share/Steam so that developers can be guaranteed to have something like zlib installed.

I think there is also an argument that linux distributions are converging due to systemd being ubiquitious. Although I personally don't enjoy using it and have substituted openrc on my Linux desktop, I can accept that developers can't reasonably support it and I would need to find a workaround to use their software.

[-] artic 4 points 1 year ago

we should have them support flatpak it seem to work on every distro i tried

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