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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 23:01:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-03, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-06-03 11:13 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-06-03, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-02 6:09 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-02, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-06-02 2:27 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 07:50:28 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I apologize to everyone but you about what I just wrote. I am frustrated
>>>>>>> that even in 2024 and having done research into the right distribution
>>>>>>> for my needs, I am yet again disgusted by the result. I love everything
>>>>>>> about Linux but the result, yet again, is pure demoralization. To read
>>>>>>> this idiotic zealot's words and his delusion that any of those 1990s
>>>>>>> UNIX distributions were actually pretty simply add salt to the wound.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the very limited gamer distro that you tried to install? You can
>>>>>> always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.  I regularly update
>>>>>> Debian, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Fedora distros without all that drama.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's Fedora with tweaks. If you point to it as being bad, you might as
>>>>> well point to Fedora at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> That makes no sense. You can't blame Fedora for tweaks that break it.
>>>
>>> The tweaks are specifically to make sure that anyone wanting to play
>>> games would be able to do so. It provides easy installation for things
>>> that will make Xbox One controllers work, help compatibility for Steam
>>> games, and the software which will help you access your gaming library
>>> from within Linux. Otherwise, it is just Fedora. It wasn't the tweaks
>>> that broke anything; it's Fedora that just committed suicide.
>> 
>> It doesn't follow. Fedora works. Someone tweaks it and renames it as a new
>> distribution and it doesn't work for you. How do you blame Fedora for that?
>> I'm guessing the choices made by the developers of this new distribution
>> worked for their machines, but not necessarily for your machine.
>
> Considering how often this happens and how using the original 
> distribution ends up doing the same, I won't bother playing this game. 
> Every time someone faces a problem, it's "not me" or "use this other 
> distribution." Then, when people prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that 
> whatever they are facing is definitely a bug in the distribution and not 
> imaginary, everyone goes silent and definitely doesn't apologize. It's 
> tiresome. The reason Windows and Mac are winning is because they're 
> knights fighting a battle with a diseased peasant. It's a battle between 
> elephants and a chihuahua that is unaware of its own size.
>
> I'm just so tired of this. Almost three decades later and nothing's changed.

Windows and Mac are winning (on the desktop only) because of innertia. Most 
people don't even know there is another choice. When they go to Best Buy 
they see Windows and Mac OS.

The Copilot Recall crap might make some users look elsewhere.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine