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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop (futurism.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (12 children)

From personal experience, it can be overwhelming even for a seasoned Linux user.

Knowing the difference of Debian, Fedora and Arch based distros. Should I go for Linux Mint, Bazzite or Endeavor? Should I go for a immutable system or not? What package manager is used? What’s a flatpak?

One real example I encountered was that I was trying to install Pop OS on my new PC. Turns out after some trial and error that Pop OS uses an old Linux kernel that doesn’t support my new AMD graphics card. I ended up installing Endeavor instead, despite my not so good experience with using Arch before. Luckily Endeavor has been a great experience so far.

With Windows there’s really only one choice for the typical home consumer.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    That's what an actual free market looks like. It's not just a choice between Windows and Mac. It does require a little more research, but there is no end of forums and comment chains laying out the difference at many different levels of depth. It also doesn't cost anything to be wrong a few times about which is best for you.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Windows Home, Windows Pro, Windows Pro for workstations, Windows Education, Windows Pro Education, Windows Enterprise, Windows Enterprise LTSC, Windows S mode, Windows IoT

    And there are some other variations for different regions and support levels.

    Do you know which one does what? Because I only vaguely do.

    Windows isn't a single thing either. It just comes preinstalled. Most people have never installed an OS, not windows nor linux.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    All machines come with windows pre-installed, no one ever needs to worry about different flavours unless you work in IT and manage windows devices.

    I haven't had to worry about which windows to get since windows 98.

    Fyi, I'm on Linux mint now.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    All machines come with windows pre-installed

    I was curious, so I checked the laptop offers in our local shop aggregator (arukereso.hu)

        Operating system       Number

    Windows 10 Home        8
    Windows 11 Home        677
    Windows 10 Pro         23
    Windows 11 Pro         1661
    Windows 11 S           21
    Linux                  74
    macOS                  141
    Chrome OS              5
    FreeDOS                506
    Without OS             679

    2390 / 3795 = 62% windows

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    No one who doesn't know anything about installing windows is gonna buy a laptop without os or with freedos, so you can deduct those too.

    The real choice for probably 99% of consumers is between windows and mac.

    The point was that end users extremely rarely need to worry about what windows flavour they need. The laptop already comes pre-installed with the correct flavour OS for that laptop.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I agree, if not by mistake the cheaper FreeDOS, buyers will select the windows preinstall I presume. I was checking if all machines come with windows. Clearly not.

    With what frequency they choose what offering, is a harder question to answer and would give a different distribution. MacOS would be higher, and without os and FreeDOS close to zero.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Are you a home user? Choose the home edition. Easy.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    When I worked at an MSP I kept running into folks (both businesses and residential customers) using the cheapest PCs they could get and having to work around Home edition limitations. I'm blanking at this moment but there was one limitation that was consistently a righteous pain in the ass... I gotta look up the differences and see if one jogs my memory

    Edit: aha! it was the freaking Microsoft account. Its required on Home edition but optional on Pro. A super common issue folks would run into was from Microsoft removing the Windows Mail app and replacing it with Outlook, but the in-place upgrade/replacement would gum up their signed in emails and Outlook would be stuck thinking it's both signed in and not at the same time. Easiest solution is to simply sign out of all accounts at the device-level and sign back in, because Outlook just looks at and manages the accounts that are signed into at the device-level but you can't do that on Home edition, so I'd have to spend even more time rooting around until Outlook finally decided that the account that it was failing to sign into wasn't in fact fully signed in and pop an actual signin prompt

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Aren't all these versions just the same product with different features locked behind payment options? It's very different from Linux, where every layer has multiple alternatives written by different authors that can behave very differently.

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