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From: wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:36:23 +0100
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On 17/04/2025 13:48, CrudeSausage wrote:
> On 2025-04-16 23:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:55:12 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> At what point do we finally give up?
>>
>> When the people start to see through those vendors’ multi-million-dollar
>> marketing campaigns telling everybody how wonderful they are.
>>
>> In other words, never.
> 
> I would blame the ignorance of the common user much more than any 
> marketing campaign. You'd be surprised at how oblivious most people are 
> to the operating system they're using. Heck, this complete disregard of 
> the operating system is part of what made it easy for me to "sell" the 
> idea of using Linux to people who owned HP laptops which had tremendous 
> problems with Windows or to teachers who simply want to be able to use 
> their computers rather than constantly be locked out of them. As long as 
> the operating system manages to get the job done, they don't care if 
> it's Linux or Windows. My dad is one such person. He actually much 
> preferred Mint to Windows when I installed it on a cheap laptop I got 
> him, but he's fine with Windows on the Intel NUC he eventually replaced 
> that machine with. Until it bugs out, there is no reason to switch over.
> 

+1

Much like car ownership. As long as it works there is no need to know 
how. If/when it goes wrong take it to someone who does know to fix.


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Regards
wasbit