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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Most people are willing to buy new hardware, and nobody pays for a Windows key tbh.

    Many people are also not willing to buy new hardware. I have several friends where each PC purchase is a massive hit on their budget that requires other things to be sacrificed. And one does pay for a Windows key every time they buy a Windows PC. SIs who sell PCs with Windows as optional offer the Linux PCs for cheaper since you don’t have to pay the Windows license fee.

    Even if they did it would be a free upgrade from 10 to 11.

    Depends on the PC, some of them just will not go to 11, in which case you are talking about spending hundreds of dollars to go from Win 10 to Win 11, but $0 to go from Win 10 to Linux.

    Enhanced Privacy

    Once again not something people strictly care about.

    Privacy is exactly what got me and one of my other friends to switch. Many, many people don’t like being spied on. And taking reasonable steps to reduce it is very much so within our control.

    The implication that carbon emissions is something an individual can do something about has been objectively disproven.

    Not buying something new and using what you have demonstrably helps. There is no world in which throwing away a perfectly good PC just to manufacture and transport another is somehow better for carbon emissions. Microsoft should not be rewarded for creating so much unnecessary ewaste by encouraging people to go out and buy another Windows PC.




  • Microsoft already lost enterprise servers to Linux, and has lost significant ground over the years in consumer PCs to ChromeOS, MacOS, and Linux. Hell, the top PC gaming handheld is a Linux offering. That was an unheard of idea just five years ago.

    While I agree that business laptops will continue to be dominated by Windows for awhile, the market shifts we see everywhere have downstream effects on business laptops too. When you find yourself having to train more and more people on how to use Windows than you did in the past, the value argument for Windows on your employee’s laptops quickly comes into question.








  • Advantages:

    • The screen is protected when the phone is closed
    • It allows for a larger screen while maintaining portability

    Disadvantages:

    • The screen is plastic, instead of glass. Meaning it is very easy to scratch
    • The screen has a hump where the hinge is
    • The hinge can get dirt in it, at which point you start developing lots of problems
    • They are very expensive

    I personally buy mid-budget phones, which means these aren’t even a consideration. But, I probably wouldn’t buy one even at the same price due to the plastic screens being very easy to scratch and a larger screen not having much value for me. But, really it’s up to you what you value in your phone.