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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Good thing I've been learning to use linux for the past couple of years, if they double down on this I'll switch permanently, just got to find a distro I like because I haven't been able to find anything that just "works" without eventually having to open the terminal for one reason or another.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I am trying to make the switch. The final straw for me was the starfield ad on my lockscreen followed by an accidental click that led to an ad for gamepass. I just watched 3 or 4 videos trying to do something simple that I don't know how to do. Each video from different creators have this running on a screen. Thought it was kind of funny.

    Edit I really struggled getting games to work so I quit trying.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oh I know exactly the ads your talking about, the setting for that is misleading option that is super easy to miss during setup, Microsoft has been doing that since Windows 10 released and its quite frustrating.

    Yes the terminal can be daunting for a beginner, in my first experience with linux was all the way back when Ubuntu was the most popular distro and the only way I got through some of the confusing stuff was from copying and pasting commands from a youtube guide.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly, the terminal is probably not going to be that hard to use for you. Considering that you're on lemmy, you're probably ahead of the curve in tech skills. Maybe don't go picking something in the deep end like arch though.

    /j I use arch btw.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah I'm slowly learning most of the terminology and commands, it can be a bit overwhelming at times.

    I had the most success with Manjaro but for some reason chunks of it randomly break over time as updates go on, some Arch enthusiast have mentioned to me its because of some weird shenanigans done by the folks who maintain Manjaro's software distribution, something about updates being held back for "stability" but in the end they end up doing the opposite.

    Right now I'm running a Fedora dual boot config with Win11 but keeping the bootloader on a separate drive so Windows doesn't touch it at all.

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