For a few years, I had hope that Microsoft would become a respectable, user-oriented, even FOSS-friendly company, but they finally seem to have settled on AI enshitification as their main business model.
FOSS friendly company
I'm not sure what you are smoking but you're high as balls dude. If there is any company that has as it's motto "fuck and destroy open source" and as slogan "fuck everything for money", then it's Microsoft.
Microsoft paid SCO to make false claims against Linux in an attempt to destroy Linux and extort large companies away from Linux. The destroy part failed, but they got multiple large companies to steer away from Linux. Normal people would go to jail for that, Microsoft execs not so much.
Totally agree with that. MS is an evil fuck company hellbent on destroying Linux from the inside. But Linux is not a container or box or thing one can just destroy. It's been fun watching them support Linux to try to infiltrate something. They haven't realized that there's nothing to infiltrate.
They haven’t realized that there’s nothing to infiltrate.
There's always something. The whole point of infiltration is that it shouldn't be detected until the frog is edible.
Ridiculing one's enemy is just always the wrong thing to do, no exceptions.
They're latest strategy is to be FOSS.... Ohh look at us! We can run Ubuntu from Windows now! We give money to Foss for development. Let's give foss GitHub so they can store all their software safely with us!..blah blah bam! Let's make this free software not free anymore...let's fire these key Foss people...let's make GitHub hard to access. Microsoft is a sneaky bastard for sure.
To be fair, Microsoft is a big company with various divisions. Parts of Microsoft are doing really great work in the FOSS area I would say, but really only if you're a developer. As a general user... they do kind of suck yet.
WSL was a good start, change comes slowly to monoliths but they always have shareholder value as their defining principle so it’s a real tightrope.
Change to Linux on main PC when?
When gaming is 100% the same on Linux you'll see more people pick it up.
It's already happened — 90% of games will work flawlessly now on both Windows and Linux. It's just that the remaining 10% are different on each platform, for various reasons. Pick your poison. Usually it's those 10% that will dictate the decision for you — but the OS itself has stopped making a difference for gaming years ago.
15 years ago. But I still gotta use Windows at work.
For a few years, I had hope that Microsoft would become a respectable, user-oriented, even FOSS-friendly company, but they finally seem to have settled on AI enshitification as their main business model.
I'm not sure what you are smoking but you're high as balls dude. If there is any company that has as it's motto "fuck and destroy open source" and as slogan "fuck everything for money", then it's Microsoft.
Microsoft paid SCO to make false claims against Linux in an attempt to destroy Linux and extort large companies away from Linux. The destroy part failed, but they got multiple large companies to steer away from Linux. Normal people would go to jail for that, Microsoft execs not so much.
Totally agree with that. MS is an evil fuck company hellbent on destroying Linux from the inside. But Linux is not a container or box or thing one can just destroy. It's been fun watching them support Linux to try to infiltrate something. They haven't realized that there's nothing to infiltrate.
There's always something. The whole point of infiltration is that it shouldn't be detected until the frog is edible.
Ridiculing one's enemy is just always the wrong thing to do, no exceptions.
They're latest strategy is to be FOSS.... Ohh look at us! We can run Ubuntu from Windows now! We give money to Foss for development. Let's give foss GitHub so they can store all their software safely with us!..blah blah bam! Let's make this free software not free anymore...let's fire these key Foss people...let's make GitHub hard to access. Microsoft is a sneaky bastard for sure.
To be fair, Microsoft is a big company with various divisions. Parts of Microsoft are doing really great work in the FOSS area I would say, but really only if you're a developer. As a general user... they do kind of suck yet.
WSL was a good start, change comes slowly to monoliths but they always have shareholder value as their defining principle so it’s a real tightrope.
Change to Linux on main PC when?
When gaming is 100% the same on Linux you'll see more people pick it up.
It's already happened — 90% of games will work flawlessly now on both Windows and Linux. It's just that the remaining 10% are different on each platform, for various reasons. Pick your poison. Usually it's those 10% that will dictate the decision for you — but the OS itself has stopped making a difference for gaming years ago.
15 years ago. But I still gotta use Windows at work.