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No option to manage your subscription via web at all!

Excuse my language, but that's fucking ridiculous. I would never use a service that didin't offer me the option to log in via plain http/https.

After unsuccessful attempt at running iTunes on linux, I ended up dusting off an old ipad mini 2 from my drawer and cancel the subscription from there (thanks god it can still connect to app store, it's still on ios 12).

Jesus 🤦... the things we have to resort to just to cancel a payment.

Not too hard, especially if you plan on running the same software on your new distro. Basically, all of the settings are in your home directory (/home/[username]/), so you could just copy everything from your home directory and that's that.

Not only that, but you could also set up your home dir to be on another partition or drive. Basically, you don't have to copy anything if you set up your distro like this. You just point the new distro to your former home directory, this is home now, and it'll just use all of the settings from there. Sure, some settings and files are distro specific, but you can manually delete those if you want to free up a few MB of space.

MS realized that the way into the future is making the OS a subscription, like Apple did. Yes Apple were first, MS copied. You see something that's good, you adjust to implement it on your terf.

Regarding the charging for updates part, I don't actually own a Mac, so it's just what I've read over the years online. I'm sorry if I made a mistake on that part.

You do have a point though about MS passing the ball to the manufacturers regarding the drivers. Still, even with just the native drivers, Windows supports a lot more hardware than MacOS does.

Regarding the NT kernel vs the *BSD one, I just don't agree. Sure, the team behind it might be top notch, but in my experience the *BSD kernel is more stable. Sure, lack of drivers, smaller user base, but if you manage to get everything running, any of the BSD flavors is rock solid. Sorry, but can't say the same about the NT kernel.

I run Linux daily, I've never seen an ad (unless it was in a browser).

To be completely honest... I'm more comfortable with the terminal now.

Asimilation complete 🤣.

I really thought it's harder, I really did... turns out it's not.

2 basic set of commands for upgrading and purging: xbps-install -Suv and xbps-remove -ROov, that's it.

I never said it's perfect. In fact, I don't use Wine for gaming at all, but the fact still remains that Wine got A LOT better after Valve got involved.

Agree on the unsuable part. I can even be a witness to that (no Windows drive API, USB is out if the question). But, regarding "regular" apps, yeah, it does the job. If you wana run Adobe or AutoDesk products, yeah, it's no good (depends on the version, but no good for anything above 2018, 2019).

Regarding iTunes... if I was on the Wine team, I wouldn't even consider that for testing... good thing I'm not.

Up to date... on Debian... lol 🤣

/s (somewhat)

Fedora is nice. You might also like PopOS or Majaro.

Uuum, no.

To be perfectly honest, building software for a fixed set of hardware products is a piece of cake. Doing it for every bit of hardware on this earth, yeah, that is PITA. So, even though I don't like MS at all, I have to hand it to them in the conpatibility department. Not as backwards compatible as Linux, but they sure are a close second.

Buidling software for an already stable as fuck platform (*BSD) is a lot easier, plus you already know what hardware it's gonna run on, lol. You cherry pick security/bug fixes and everything else regarding optimizations gets thrown under the carpet... and of course you charge your customers for the security/bug fixes, that's always a plus 👍.

I know what you mean. Likewise, I've never paid MS for any of their products (or any other company for that matter, lol 😂). So, if pushing comes to shoving and LTSC still comes with this bullshit, bye bye dual boot 👋 😉.

Yeah, they are. Which doesn't stop you from pirating them. I use them on all my rigs IF I had to to use Windows.