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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:23:40 -0500
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vallor wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:29:06 -0500, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
> wrote in <vlbk3v$h0k1$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>> On 1/4/2025 10:01 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> At first glance, there is a lot about Windows that is way more
>>> user-friendly than Linux. However, if you take something like Linux
>>> Mint and compare it to Windows 11, you'd wonder _how_ Windows 11 is
>>> friendlier. In Windows 11, some applications can't be removed and you
>>> don't get an idea why. Some Windows components aren't even listed in
>>> the applications so you have to wonder how to install or remove them.
>>> For drivers, they're installed through Windows Update but if they don't
>>> work right, you just have to know about the Device Manager which is
>>> impossible to find on your own because they're phasing out the Control
>>> Panel. Some programs are available through the Window Store, others
>>> through the web which means that some are repairable and easily
>>> uninstallable whereas the others aren't... and so on. For new users,
>>> Linux Mint is actually _much_ simpler than Windows is.
>> 
>> Right-click on the Win11 Start button.

What, no middle-click?  :-D

> That's not how I found the Spice tools for my Win 11 Pro
> For Workstations guest.
>
> The "Microsoft Store" was no help either.
>
> The system is very "micro" -- and very "soft"...

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