• Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Working class people at large don’t know about these alternatives, I’m certain you know that. IT folk and nerds alike do, but anyone outside of these circles don’t necessarily see the choice they have

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      11 days ago

      Those people that don’t know options exist are also people that don’t care about or know about support life for something like the OS - they just see it as what the computer comes with. Most of them probably wouldn’t have upgraded from 7 to 10 without it just doing it itself. A lot of them will just keep using 10 well past the end of support.

      Also, I really enjoyed Railcar’s subversion of expectations with all that lead up to what we all assumed was a Linux recommendation to end up being pirated windows. That got a chuckle out of me. I feel like the haters didn’t get the joke.

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        11 days ago

        I feel like the haters didn’t get the joke.

        Their computer didn’t come with sense of humor pre-installed, and it’s too hard to do it themselves.

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      11 days ago

      Working class people at large don’t know about these alternatives,

      You mean only the elite know about Linux? Preposterous!

      *proceeds to clean monocle

      Jokes aside, it might be a good time to teach and learn. Or pay, or have less security moving forward.

      It was a staple of the “working class” to be resourceful, to know to repair stuff. It’s on Microsoft best interest that you change the computer, that you pay another OEM license, that they can drop support for older hardware… And this will happen again with windows 12.