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Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Thank you Microsoft after being a windows user since the 3.1 days your recent changes to Windows makes me happy to announce I bought my first MAC.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

So close. You could have gone to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Why do people capitalize all of Mac?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

They bought a Mass Accelerator Cannon from the UNSC

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Its a Media access control address, AKA MAC address that he bought ofc. It lives inside his ethernet card.

I'm up too early, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because they don't know that MAC is media access control, and Mac is Macintosh.

I suspect it's the "Mac vs PC" stereotype, and they think C stands for computer and MA stands hell knows for what. Because a PowerPC PC is not a PC, and an ARM PC is not a PC, and a SPARC PC is not a PC (OK, it's a workstation, of the noble blood, not like the rest), and I think I've lost my thought.

My reaction would not be switching to MacOS, because for something the users of which look down on Linux and FreeBSD, with all that "just works" and "made for Terrans" pathos, it surely is frustrating to use.

Just some well-supported enough Linux would do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mac/PC is kinda a silly dichotomy now that they're both actually EFI/ARM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're all PCs they just aren't IBM (compatible) PCs. Anything from a Workstation to a Smartphone is a Personal Computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know ; just mocking the marketing terms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s like in Unpretty, that 90s song by TLC:

you can buy your hair if it won't grow

you can fix your nose if you say so

you can buy all the iPhones that MAC can make

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I would have installed Linux, logged into MSN.net, and then told them to eat shit on their support forum.