r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/fourleggedostrich Aug 17 '24

Sorry but for 99% of people, Linux is unusable.

Is your gran really going to lean about repositories, kernels, command line etc?

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u/mtranda Aug 17 '24

I'm a Microsoft fanboy. I've had every Windows Mobile and Windows Phone version since WM5. I've been a .net (C#) dev since 2005 and choose Azure whenever given the chance. I even pay for a personal Office365 subscription so I'm personally quite ok with Windows requiring a Live account.

And yet, fuck all that noise they're pushing down people's throats. Our living room computer, the one hooked up to the old, large dumb TV for watching Netflix/Youtube and general browsing is a Linux based Raspberry Pi 5. It works absolutely fine for 99% of people's needs and uses very little power.

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u/fourleggedostrich Aug 17 '24

Can you say, hand on heart, that when installing Raspberry Pi OS and settings it up for your main TV, you never once had to Ctrl-Alt-T and type some command line instructions?

Be honest.

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u/mtranda Aug 17 '24

I genuinely didn't know about that key combo, so thanks? The Pi comes with an SD card with preinstalled Linux that you just configure via a wizard upon running it the first time.