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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 07:50:05 -0500
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Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>
>>>> We all have reasons to switch to Linux. When you're window shopping as
>>>> most of us are when it comes to the operating system, it's hard to find
>>>> the motivation to stick to it when we encounter the first few bugs. In
>>>> your case, it was how slow 11 was making your new hardware feel; for me,
>>>> it was the knowledge that the corporations involved had no interest in
>>>> fixing a three-year-old bug that made using the operating system
>>>> intolerable.
>>> 
>>> Win11 23H2 was overweight, on a machine that was ideal to upgrade to
>>> Win11 21H2.  That is just ridiculous.  Two years.  Is that an
>>> eternity, or something?  I like Microsoft in the abstract, I think
>>> they're innovators, I think they do some useful things.  But that is
>>> irrelevant to my enjoyment of my machine.  Win11 outgrew it in *no
>>> time*.
>>
>>In exchange for manufacturers bundling Windows with every one of their 
>>machines, Microsoft agrees to bloat the operating system artificially to 
>>encourage users to upgrade more frequently.
>>
>>It's long been a theory but I would love to someone to tell me that it 
>>is far-fetched.
>
> Boom.

That's the origin of the term "Wintel" IIRC.

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