Microsoft really wants people to move to Windows 11.
  • Tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Why l would pay 30$ to dumpester fire OS to use it securely for another year when l could install Linux for free with more than 7 year security?

    And consumers can only pay for single year.

    It just shows how M$ doesn’t care about their costumers treating them like lab rats.

    • HC4L@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I switched to Linux myself but can we please stop lying about Linux being a drop-in replacement? There is enough sofware that does not work.

      • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        A lot of Linux users here think the conversation begins and ends with game support. A lot of us use our computers for work and there is a lot of productivity and creative software that does not play nice with Linux. I’ve probably said this a dozen times here before but I’ll say it again: Not all of us use our computers solely for gaming.

          • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Whats the best replacement for Excel? LibreCalc is ok but it lags really far behind Excel in intermediate features. My close friend in analytics switched back to Excel recently because he got so tired of dealing with LibreCalc.

            Also do you know if the Affinity suite works well in Wine? Ive messed with a lot of software paid and libre for its purposes but just vibe with Affinity best

            Im not asking to sound rude im asking because im genuinely looking down the barrel of this OS change and I do a lot of computer based hobbies and work that are going to be uprooted by this

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I like all the comments ready to take a fisting in the ass from Microsoft just to keep Windows 10.

    If you raised a fucking stink instead of taking this shitty deal, they may be forced to keep supporting it for free anyway like they did with Windows 7.

    They’ve really got you guys cowed into paying for the convenience of getting fucked, don’t they?

    This is a company with a market cap of $3.04 trillion and you guys are just gonna bend over and take it for $30 bucks? Wew lad. They don’t need your fucking thirty dollars, and you fucking know it. It’s a god damned shakedown.

    Microsoft: Wouldn’t it be a shame if your computer was somehow insecure and got hacked?

    Sounds like a Mafioso showing up for protection money to me.

    EDIT: There’s still about 700 million Windows 10 PC’s still on the market. If every single existing Windows 10 machine paid for this service, Microsoft would make $21 billion dollars next year off this alone. It’s a shakedown, do the fucking math. (700,000,000 x $30 = $21,000,000,000) Even if only half do it, it’s still a cool $10.5 billion.

    EDIT II: This also normalizes the practice of paying for security updates for consumers. You really want to take us down that path where every security update is paid?