Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
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And still Linux is nowhere close to being a usable desktop OS experience. I'd pick Mac over Linux any day.

with respect, have you honestly tried desktop linux? what do you consider about it difficult?

I keep trying it on and off since before suse/opensuse and redhat/fedora split.

From someone who's first distro was slackware: it has nothing to do with difficulty. Linux, even the most user friendly distros, kinda stuck for a regular non tech savy users

I actually agree with you and I think I like it like that. It's like our own little language that nobody else speaks.

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Linux gives you the ability to be your own system admin.

Most people don't want or need that and have been steadily handing over more and more admin duties of their systems to Microsoft, Apple and Google since smartphones have become widely adopted.

But Linux is totally usable to anyone who had enough admin skills to run Windows XP and not get totally wrecked by malware. It's just a matter of learning.

This makes sense for the edge case of power users. The general use case of Windows won't learn to be their own sysadmin.

Only power users want to be their own system admins. A regular user just wants stuff to work.

Linux is unusable for general population.

my only gripe with linux is... gaming. Not the AAA titles which usually run pretty well, the indie games.
they are usually full of small but frustrating issues.
Like for example steam overlay is broken in celeste due to xna/amd bug which makes is frustrating while using big picture mode/gamepadui.
People playground just does not work. at all. immediately crashes with an unknown unity error.
stormworks? random freezes after minifying or switching virtual desktops if running under xwayland

That shouldn't be a gripe on Linux, it should be a gripe on game developers not supporting Linux. This is like blaming Nintendo when your Switch emulator on the PC isn't working right.

Had me in the first half not gonna' lie.

It's a fun way to trigger modern Linux fanboys who have no idea that Mac OS is a UNIX compliant system that pretty much originated on BSD codebase.

Using Mac OS is about as good of an experience as taking a hammer to my fingers.

Now imagine it is still less suffering than Linux.

Then what the fuck did I do over past 2 years?

Yes, because you are definitely a regular computer user who has no idea what sh is.

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