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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 23:18:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:41:23 -0700, % wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:31:10 -0400, Paul wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 4/3/2025 3:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Let’s just say, it’s not Linux trying desperately to become more like
>>>> Windows, it’s Microsoft desperately trying to make Windows more like
>>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Microsoft copies "features", it does not particularly care where they
>>> come from.
>> 
>> Microsoft is stuck in a bind. After years, decades, of conditioning its
>> users to be allergic to the command line, now suddenly it has to
>> reverse course and admit that command lines can be cool after all.
>> 
>> It’s not going well.
>> 
> bill's place has 17 bathrooms and you say it's not going well ...

That was built way back when. Microsoft was still referring to Linux as a 
“cancer” at the time. Or maybe even before, when nobody had heard of Linux 
and Microsoft was considered unassailable.

> computers have become the least of their profit making devices

That’s not really a reassurance about the future of Windows though, is it?