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Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Sure in terms in computing power. But Microsoft still needs you to be able to access a windows device so that they can push you onto their subscriptions. I think in this case, they think people will just cough up the extra costs to get windows. Of course at one point even regular people will consider Linux. And that is when Microsoft will break.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I feel like Linux needs to be just a little bit more accessible to the tech-illiterate too. It is getting closer but go show some uninitiated person a Linux forum where power users are talking about maintaining their system daily or weekly, the average person is going to still nope out. I run Linux and and Windows, but if Mac could run more games I'd think about giving them a try because they all suck in their own special way.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    but go show some uninitiated person a Windows forum where power users are talking about maintaining their system daily or weekly, the average person is going to still nope out.

    The OS is immaterial, showing anyone uninitiated the shit power users do, you'll get that reaction. If you show me, a professional windows admin and a homelab linux admin, a Mac power user forum and my eyes will cross. But for windows or potentially Linux, it's fine. Don't use the users' lack of understanding as a mark against it, because that same mark is on every OS.

    Linux itself has been usable by the tech illiterate for over a decade. My dead mother could use it just fine after I got sick of reinstalling windows, and she's been gone damned near that long. Sure, they have to have assistance in getting it installed right now because even the windows terminal terrifies them, but get it installed and a base configuration in place and it takes care of itself for the most part.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    That just hasn't been my experience, or my wife's. I set her up with a laptop running Linux mint and she's constantly complaining about needing to look up command scripts to type in the terminal to get things to work. I have been experimenting with different distros for fifteen years and it has been difficult enough that I'm still primarily a Windows user (my gaming and my job both have things I haven't gotten to work otherwise).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Some distros are surprisingly accessible to be honest. And with the enshitification of windows people will be very tempted or pushed to make step to Linux. And when the crossover point is there is can go really quickly. More an more companies are deciding that the cost of Microsoft alone is worth the migration. Exposing even more people to Linux. My biggest barrier is that some online games won't run on Linux but if that changes then why not.

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