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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If installing linux was just a ‘skill issue’, then why the fuck are you happy about only 4% desktop adoption rates?

Because it's an uphill battle against monopolies. PCs mostly come with Windows preinstalled. Users mostly use the OS preinstalled. Considering that, 4% rate means that it's more usable than MacOS. Just repeating known truths.

And why the fuck is every forum post like this filled with replies like mine about how frustrating it is to get setup?

Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes people expect something reality doesn't deliver.

Shit son, I have still functioning keyboards older than you.

Yellow card for ageism, ha-ha.

Ok, so I was trying to get a TWAIN emulator working to talk to my all-in-one printer, printing worked fine (after 3 days of tinkering with CUPS because my specific model didn’t have an existing profile and fuck if I know about how to write one myself) but I needed the scanner and I asked in the forum for the particular emulator, I asked in several generic Ubuntu forums (the distro I was trying at the time).

Oh, so a piece of hardware the vendor of which didn't care about Linux support. How is this an OS problem?

I obviously had that too, but I don't get why'd you be pissed at Linux and its community if it's a device driver problem.

That is just one example of multiple dozens of issues I’ve tried at least to get directions towards a solution.

OK, so that community we are talking about sometimes hallucinates when it comes to problems unsolvable. I had that with Windows too.

And not even the most frustrating one.

In your example the problem is with the vendor of the device.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Blah blah blah the same argument.

Yes, the same correct argument.

If you had a better product than Windows, for free, everyone would use it. You don’t, and you blame everyone except yourselves.

I've already guessed you think that, only you don't give any arguments supporting your opinion.

Because if I can’t use my tools with one OS, but I can with another, then the problem is with the OS that I cannot.

You've yourself said there's no official driver, so the entirety of the described problem is with the hardware vendor.

Scanners are common peripherals my dude. Do you think windows would have sold if it didn’t support scanners?

Windows doesn't even support browsers, because nobody ported Vimb to it, yet it sells.

That's how your opinion looks, some piece of hardware without a Linux driver (drivers for Windows are, of course, made by hardware vendors) not working is somehow Linux' fault.

I agree it's a Linux problem, but it's vendor's fault. Like if someone drops a turd on your head, it's their fault and your problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That last sentence made me laugh out loud and it's spot on. The amount of reverse engineering or getting drivers to work anyway that happens on Linux is already mind boggling.

If the vendor doesn't care, that's just what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No it isn’t, I refuted it in my next sentence.

You have denied it, not refuted it.

I don’t need to, simple market forces make that clear. If you have a free product that is easily available that outcompetes paid products, the market will shift to the free product. If it does not then it isn’t outcompeting the competition.

You don't know shit about market forces either, and I'm ancap, LOL.

Why would you pay for McDonald’s if Smashburger was free?

If a ride to get Smashburger costs more in time and money than McDonalds. Or if I have certain health problems and there's no diet Smashburger, but there's something in McDonalds. Or many other examples.

The first example looks especially fitting if, say, McDonalds got the building with some special municipal permission and Smashburger couldn't just buy something in similarly available place.

If the manufacturer has no interest in doing it, then who will?

You if you need it. Nobody's going to do what you need for you. Adoption is not the only or the primary goal.

Are you fucking high? I really don’t even know how to respond to this.

You can respond with thanking me on your knees for taking time to explain how you look and not asking if you are fucking high.

Whining isn’t going to raise your ridiculous OS’s adoption rating, bro.

I'm not selling anything to you, bro.