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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-17 à 16:12, RonB a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> I don't believe that the majority of people whose computers are about to 
> become obsolete even know that Linux exists, much less know how to 
> install it. It's sad but people nowadays are very uninformed and 
> resistant to learn even the simplest things.

I sometimes follow the Mac subReddit (less so now than before) and I see 
quite a few Mac users (who've usually bought a new Mac) asking what should 
they do with their old one. They're either told to put OpenCore on it and 
update to a supported version of Mac OS (which won't be an option soon on 
Intel Macs) or install Linux. A lot of them go the Linux route.

That said, I realize that the majority of Mac users aren't taking part in 
the Mac subReddit. Linux runs pretty well on my old 2014 Mac Mini. Though, 
usually, when I go to the Mac Mini, I'm trying out something on Mac side of 
the computer, not the Linux one. 

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien