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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you buy a PC it has Windows on it. The majority of people are not cocking about formatting a USB stick and fiddling with the BIOS to put Linux on it. They aren't thinking about operating systems at all, and if you need specific software for work, chances are it isn't going to run on anything other than Windows. If you don't need it for work, you've probably just got a tablet by now and store all your photos on Facebook.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    That comic really reminds me of trying to degoogle and FOSSify my computer as a complete novice. Multiple, extremely frustrating times, I've wanted to install something but I genuinely have not been able to understand the installation instructions. I also don't know enough to know what the right search terms are to find out what I'm meant to do.

    I'm still trying but it's fucking demoralising.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you buy a PC it has Windows on it. The majority of people are not cocking about formatting a USB stick and fiddling with the BIOS to put Linux on it.

    And increasingly the majority of people don't even bother to keep a PC anymore and just use their phone

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Exactly. We used to have a massive chain of shops called PC World, and that eventually became Currys/PC World, and is now just Currys.

    The age of computers came and went, and people still need washing machines and TVs. They still sell laptops I think, but if you want anything from their range of "gaming" PCs, they have to order it in, usually from one of the many stores online that will build them for you.

    Windows already lost. It lost to Android.

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