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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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MS screwing us with software. Apple screwing us with hardware upgrades. Linux out there taking all survivors
Linux suffers from being a patchwork of hobbyists updates, corporate additions, and patchy distro support. When it comes down to it, if you have an issue, you either have to solve it on your own or hope and pray the elitists on StackOverflow are in a good mood.
Honestly, every OS kinda sucks.
"Patchwork" sounds like a good way to describe Windows as well. Or at least it was when I was a Windows 10 sysadmin and there were two different settings menus to do everything.
Control panel and Settings, right? It got on my nerves as well.
Don't worry, MS is planning to fix that soon I've heard. They're just going to get rid of control panel and continue to dumb down Settings
Apple and Microsoft support aren't exactly awesome, either, unless you're a big business with deep pockets. At least with Linux, the system is open, so if there is a way to solve my problem, someone has almost certainly found it already and added it to Arch Wiki or Stack Overflow or something.
Yet almost every os in the world relies on some sort of "hobbyist" updates. Including windows.
Not wrong, but all this feels like a minor inconvenience compared to choosing between Arasaka and Militech.
Wait what's apple been up to?
Broadly: Constructing their hardware so it's impossible to repair or upgrade by anyone but them (or at all), then lobbying against any attempts to legislate the 'right to repair'.
Check out the work of Louis Rossmann for details.
Oh I thought this was something new they were doing. Same old shit they've always been up to. Got it
My favourite is making the nvme drive accessible, but soldering the actual memory controller to the mainboard, so this ability to swap the drive is utterly useless to us.
Well the latest development is that Apple is now going to support the current right to repair bill in California, but people are rightfully suspicious that they're going to get some loopholes written in or otherwise neuter the bill.
An article: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/apple_california_right_repair/
They actually support right to repair laws. The joke is that they will make their hardware so difficult to repair that they are the only ones who can do it.
Only very recently, and people are rightly suspicious of their motives: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/apple_california_right_repair/
LOL what are they not up to?
To put it very succinctly: they want to control you and your very expensive hardware that you buy from them.