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Corporations are the economic version of cancer
I'd rather subscribe to windows than troubleshooting linux
Sadly this is how I feel too.
You don't need to troubleshoot Linux any more than Windows these days. Especially if you get your machine from a Linux-friendly supplier.
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gonna be great when you can't afford to pay this month and you lose access to your computer
“Might want to be making…”
Weird ass attempt at future perfect tense?
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Remember the rumors over 10 years ago that Windows 8 was going to be a subscription OS?
Valve moves SteamOS to the desktop... The only trick would be getting corporate buy in.
I just can't see people standing for ads in their os at best and paying a continual fee at worst.
So is business moving to M365 windows lics no doubt. It's been on the cards for a while.
Since when has windows 11 been deprecated? After windows 7 I switched to Linux and all I hear is new windows is around the corner and even worse! How does this company even keep customers, when all they do is upgrade their windows?!
Microsoft only ever sticks to every other distribution of Windows because those are the ones that suck the least.
XP > good Vista > bad 7 > good 8 > nightmare nightmare nightmare 10 > good 11 > bad
Tho if 12 is subscription based this will change obv.
Honestly I like Windows 11 better than Windows 10. I mean I don't like or use either one, but if I had to I'd go with 11 (with debloat script, Powertoys, WSL2 and blocking telemetry with DNS as much as possible)
This is subjective of course but I prefer both the visual and sound theme of Win11 (I despised Win10 in both regards). Plus it has some additional nice qol features like, I think, tabs in explorer?
Anything after 7 is bad in my eyes. I HATE the direction Windows went with the UI style, doing away with the Vista and 7 Aero look. Plus Windows 10 drives me up the wall trying to find the proper settings (is it Settings or Control Panel? Why do we have both?!).
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Yeah, please do that. It will be great!
Seems like an odd direction when a lot services are moving online and to SaaS based solutions, removing the dependency of a specific underlying OS.
This is just another move in that direction. Maybe the next version will be a thin client where you stream most of your apps. The pricing wouldn't change, only where apps are run.
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It’s a good idea, so the pain will end and it will die one and for all
they've been wanting to do a subscription windows since they did some limited testing of the concept back with win7.
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