The avalanche has just began.
Can yall idiots just fact-check for a goddamn second? https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/10/16/no-windows-12-is-a-free-upgrade-and-wont-require-a-subscription/
Edit: Just type “windows 12 subscription” into your search bar. It’s fewer words than any of these comments!
No man dont ruin Linux rabid users from bitching about Windows.
Someone mentioned Linux!
I use Arch btw.
But but but that’s not as fun as hearing a bunch of Linux users bitch about shit they heard once maybe.
Really though this website seems to have more misinformation and just general stupidity than even reddit.
I simply just hate windows and dont care if its true or not. they sell you without subscription.
It’s only free since they assume you’ll be paying for windows11 subscription.
I’ve been considering making the move to Linux for a few months now. If this comes to pass that will more than likely be the final nail in the coffin. Based on what I’ve seen, Linux has become a lot more user friendly since I messed with it when I had it on a mini laptop back in the day.
I’ve held off until now (I haven’t), but now I’m going to call it (for the 1000th time):
This will be the year of the Linux desktop.
Unfortunately, unless Microsoft fucks up BIG time and makes Windows simply unusable, people will continue to use it. I think the year of the Linux desktop will come by the time GTA VII gets released, once we all here are six feet under.
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I agree that some distro desktop are good. Others are a pain in the ass in orders of magnitude never seen before.
But it will be hard to make Linux the default when many programs are made to target windows only and most people are already used to Window’s fuckery.
QubesOS? It was endorsed by Edward Snowden
Fuck Microsoft. Is there any decent music recording/editing/DAW type software for Linux?
There are a lot of pro audio tools available on Linux. I myself use some of the more basic tools, such as the universal plugin host Carla to host LV2/3, VST and LADSPA based audio plugins. And a basic lightweight MIDI mixing sftware called
jack_mixer, combine that with a patchbay likeqpwgraph, and virtual audio channels set up throughpactland I have a custom, lightweight but infinitely expandable plugin chain and mixer set up I can use for video recording and streaming.But software ranges from that all the way to full featured integrated DAW setups and everything in between.
Yes, there is.
- Ardour
- Reaper
- Studio One
- Bitwig Studio
- LMMS
- Zrythm Studio
Even if w!ndøws did start charging a subscription for their OS, you would not see a single change in the states in places like schools , libraries, or anywhere else with nearly public computer access.
W!ndøws has so much of a foothold on the PC market and everybody from your ancient 90 year old grandma to your 90 day old already know how it works and how to use it. The average person would absolutely protest and complain if there was a switch to Linux (or BSD or anything similar) since they might actually have to learn more than just the basics of how to use a computer.
In India and South Africa, Linux has been facing a huge increase in usage since last year. It shows that windows isn’t invulnerable like that.
Gotta remember in the workforce - the youngest people in our workforce used an iPad or an android phone before they touched Windows. Those minds are gonna be way more open to alternatives.
I love that people downvoted you… they clearly don’t have kids. My kids know Android… because of tablets and my wife’s phone… they’ve spent little to no time in from of an actual computer and the laptops in schools are chromebooks. I’d like someone to point out where windows is in any of this.
Public schools are primarily using Chrome books at this point… so your premise from the get go is already broken.
Yeah, I haven’t been in public school for over a half decade, for one, and two, all computers at my school were windows. My knowledge on public schools is outdated.
But I guess you’re right.
This was based on a report that was debunked almost immediately, y’all gotta stop reposting this every day.
Nooo but it confirms my viewpoint :-(
Oh that sweet, sweet confirmation bias hit. Nothing like it!
Good luck, the vegans of the transistor realm have decided that complaining about fake news regarding windows is the best topic to just never shut the fuck up about.
Are you OK?
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OP is spreading misinformation. Ban his ass.
So I bought a Steamdeck, and while that is not my first experience with Linux.
It has opened my eyes to how easily it can replace my windows system for personal use.
Couldn’t be happier, even with how locked down steamOS is, it lets me do anything I need.
A screenshot of something that was posted 12 days ago?
It still is, they just changed the number on a random patch when they cut the actually useful option to put the taskbar on the side of the screen.
I’m glad to see somebody else as salty as I am over them removing that feature for Windows 11, as that immediately killed any enthusiasm I had towards it.
I rock an ultrawide monitor. You know how many needless pixels a bottom task bar takes up on that thing? If I wanted to stick duck tape on a third of my screen I would do that.
So I went and paid for StartAllBack immediately. Because screw that.
Exactly. Even on regular width monitor, you still have so much more horizontal space to spare than vertical, so putting it on the side just makes sense!
How Microsoft don’t see that, at least anymore, is astounding to me
It never was. That quote was an offhand comment by a developer evangelist that everyone ran with as the official word from Microsoft
It still is. Windows 10 and 11 are built on the same version of Windows NT with different patches.
Windows 11 current release - NT version 10.0.22621.2428
Windows 10 current release - NT version 10.0.19045.3570
Both are Windows NT 10.0.
Wait. A few years ago, Windows decided they couldn’t keep up with warez, so they allowed unactivated Windows for the first time. Now, they are going back to paid model, just to let the piracy shine up again!
In addition, this means, that if I bought a computer with Windows pre-installed, I couldn’t operate it? This will render OEM Windows installation useless. So… year of the Linux Desktop?
Theyre gonna follow the Adobe model and use online DRM to make it impossible to pirate. You can’t pirate software if core functionality depends on online services.
If you think you can’t pirate Adobe I’ve got news for you
Wait, how do the keywords they mentioned indicate anything about a subscription?
