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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux?
Date: 19 Mar 2025 23:44:05 GMT
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:56:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vrfb29$1lo98$1@dont-email.me>:

> “Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks”
> 
> <https://www.theverge.com/news/632327/microsoft-windows-11-system-
device-specs-recommendations>
> 
> Of course, it’s not their hardware that “sucks”, it’s the bloated
> Windows OS that the poor vict^H^H^H^Husers are trying to run on it.

I had to shake my head today -- bought a 1U server from SuperMicro,
and the only OS options it offered pre-installed were either
Windows -- or nothing.

I picked "nothing" of course, because it's going to run Ubuntu Linux.

(n.g.'s snecked)

-- 
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.14.0-rc7 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
   "Reality seems to be a constant intrusion on my dreams!"