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Subject: Re: Do =?UTF-8?Q?Microsoft=E2=80=99s?= Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
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On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-27 9:33 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 May 2024 07:53:13 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-05-26 7:18 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 26 May 2024 09:06:43 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I upgraded to Linux from Windows XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're in the minority no matter how you spin it.
>>>>
>>>> Where are the Windows XP users? Gone.
>>>>
>>>> Where are the Linux users? More numerous than ever.
>>>>
>>>> Who’s the “minority” now?
>>>
>>> Linux, still. The XP users went to 7 once they could and upgraded their
>>> machines.
>> 
>> Really? Windows 7? Is that the best the poor things could do?
>
> Are you purposefully dense? I'm going in chronological order.
>
> Those who had machines which could capably run Windows XP did so until 
> 2014 when Microsoft stopped supporting the product. At that point, if 
> they saw the lack of support as a problem, they upgraded their machines 
> to one running 7 or 8.1. They didn't say "let me hold onto this 2001 
> machine and run some shit Linux distribution on it."

I moved from XP to Linux and Linux wasn't shit. Windows Vista, now that 
truly was shit.

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