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Subject: Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up
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On 2024-12-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-17 à 11:23, vallor a écrit :
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:51:12 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>> <Ck2dnSLtXetyAPz6nZ2dnZfqn_sAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>> 
>>> vallor wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:56:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vjr3qj$1it5e$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 17 Dec 2024 05:09:30 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It's almost as if Microsoft has decided its customers are now its
>>>>>> beta-testers.
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean, you just discovered? Some of us noticed this happening years
>>>>> ago.
>>>>
>>>> They're more overt about it now.
>>>>
>>>> It's too bad that anti-trust enforcement is so defanged in our
>>>> government.  The whole "TPM 2 for Windows 11" thing is screwing up the
>>>> marketplace.
>>>>
>>> my market place is fine
>> 
>> Your computer is new enough to have TPM 2.
>> 
>> Some folks aren't so lucky...
>
> Those who don't have TPM 2 are free to use Linux or buy a new computer.

Which is what a lot of them will probably do (either that or keep running 
older versions of Windows). Mac users are finding new lives for their old 
(unsupported) computers using Linux.

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