Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us13.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=7j\=lZ1hQRh9f6`g5fNY:hHWonT5<]0TmdjI?Uho:XeklL51CP6LDLlO` Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microsoft: one step forward, one step back Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:20:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <667c1c47$0$1895492$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <_aWeO.147258$Cqra.36389@fx10.iad> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1719433219 reader.netnews.com 2422127 127.0.0.1:58777 Bytes: 2856 Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>> Whether you like to admit it or not, you too will use Linux. >> >> Exactly, it used to be a philosophical thing, now it's just an >> imperative. There is no supported Winblows version that's worth crap, >> now, 10 is too close to the end of support, it's an utter dead end. 11 >> has Copilot and is getting worse with every update. You need Linux to >> survive, as a desktop computer user, unless you can take Apple's ass >> reaming. > >I love the battery life and the keyboard on the Apple laptops, but I can >get the same kind of battery life if I buy a laptop with a Snapdragon >Elite processor on the PC side and a laptop keyboard made by >Steelseries. Using a PC, I'll at least have an option of whether I use >Windows or Linux, as well as the option to replace any of the laptop's >parts myself. With Apple, good luck on that last part. Laptops are an enigma to me, yeah, I see why one would want it, to sit on the couch with a real computer, but it's just undoable for me, I can use my phone as a portable computer, but for real work I need my desk and monitor/keyboard/etc. So yeah, if I thought about getting a laptop, the MacBook models are a nice option, having the non-Intel/AMD stuff, but that's beginning to be available in PC models as well, so as long as I could boot Linux, that'd be the choice. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.