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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft just put this controversial Notepad feature behind a
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:10:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote at 11:10 this Friday (GMT):
> On 20/02/2025 12:50 am, Tyrone wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 2025 at 9:17:46 PM EST, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>
><Snip>
>
>>> Running Windows in a VM is one thing, I'm using Wine as I type
>>> this to run Forte Agent as my preferred NNTP client, under Linux,
>>> but putting Win11 on bare metal just makes no sense, unless you
>>> have very recent hardware.  M$ is not supporting stuff for long,
>>> even Win10 realistically requires a certain threshold to perform
>>> well, and 11 is just insane.  And Apple is a money pit.  Linux is
>>> the only option.
>> 
>> Linux is AN option.   Certainly not the best for most users.
>
> "Certainly not the best for most users" ..... because they have Windows
> and.or Apple shoved down their throats from, what, Primary/Elementary
> School days .... so that they will be locked onto those tracks for life
> .... unless they get adventurous and try something else!!


And companies refuse to try anything else.
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