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Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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Or... Read what I said. Spend the $300 on the enterprise license. No ads. No forced notifications. A single computer with multiple users at one time in a home environment is not a use case that would get any thought. Those that want it, can do it. And it's easy, and free. Hyper-V is free and the licenses for the virtual machines are free too because the container host is windows. Lock an instance per output and voila. Recall won't be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable. Just like forced updates are disabled in enterprise. Forced reboots disabled. Etc.
If you want that experience you buy that experience.
Sorry, but no. 300 USD for an OS is absolutely absurd. Just to be "on the safer side" from MS and its shitty tactics?
"Recall won’t be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable"
Sweet summer child, I pity you. How anyone can still have any trust in MS is beyond me, but so be it.
$300 for the most important piece of software on the hardware that you interact with every day, sometimes all day, for years? That's a steal.
And again, as an OS, Windows just works and Linux doesn't. Even if you wanted to set things manually in the registry to disable the bad consumer "features", you'd still spend less time than configuring a standard Linux install and it would be more stable.
It's like Apple fan bois nowadays. Ridiculous.
Yeah, keep paying ransom to a company that does not even manage to get the basic security right, it's your money after all. I'm happy without Microsoft and with an OS that works and works for me, not some greedy CEO.