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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:43:33 -0500
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On 11/26/2024 4:53 PM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
> 
>>>> Stallman got so mad at a printer that he devoted the rest of his life to
>>>> demanding everyone's code.
>>>
>>> What printer?  Is this a real story, or just an expression of
>>> Stallman's philosophy with a euphemism?
>>
>> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201d-redux-a-testimonial-about-the-injustice-of-proprietary-firmware
> 
> 
> Would you suggest we'd be better off relying on M$ et al, then? 'Cause
> it'd be a tough sell, to me, when I see how they fucked over millions
> of Win10 users, in their Win11 beta test, culminating in 20H2 and
> later builds.  In 2019, Win10 turned into bug-infested beta crud,
> publicly forced on victims, and then in 2020-2021 it was simply a
> preview of Win11, bloated to a point it ran like ass on older systems.

You're greatly exaggerating.  Win11 runs as well as Win10 on older systems.


> This is the bullshit you praise.  

Above GuhNoo crapware?  Of course.

But, to be fair, I haven't installed a full distro to bare metal in a 
long time - like 2+ years.  So hopefully there are significant improvements.


> And they're doing just as much evil
> with Win11, which is what prompted me to stop using it.  

What 'evil' are you referring to?


> You are more
> than welcome to the product key I gave you, for any useful purpose you
> find for it, if you haven't yet.  I don't want it back.  

If you change your mind, I haven't given it away.


> I will not disgrace my precious computer with M$, again.

You already did, Gollum.  The minute you installed Wine you turned your 
GuhNoo crapbox into a half-ass Windows machine, and admitted Linux isn't 
fit for its purpose.