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Your computer account is overdrawn. Please see Big Brother.
I see this as a solid indicator (Score:0)
that people are starting to wise up to the out of control fascist corporate surveillance society we now live in, and realizing that Android, MacOS and Windows are now nothing more than platforms to run cloud apps and spy on everything they do.
People don't own anything anymore. Users don't have full control over what they pay for and the software they run is basically a hostile environment that's not designed with their best interest in mind but Big Data's.
Linux on the desktop brings back a sense of ownershi
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It actually probably means the opposite. Linux's is probably due to more and more people dumping their home desktops and laptops completely and just using their iPads and smartphones.
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It actually probably means the opposite. Linux's is probably due to more and more people dumping their home desktops and laptops completely and just using their iPads and smartphones.
Probably a lot to do with "Your computer doesn't have the TPM chip needed for the upgrade to Windows 11" and a friendly nerd suggesting Linux which is finally good enough for most home use. That coupled with the inflation hit on pocketbooks, and you're seeing people want to use functional machines as long as possible.
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Probably a lot to do with "Your computer doesn't have the TPM chip needed for the upgrade to Windows 11" and a friendly nerd suggesting Linux
I know this is your fever dream but literally no one outside of Slashdot gives an iota of a shit about this. People use computers. They don't care what OS is underneath until it stops functioning, and Windows 10 is functioning for everyone and precisely zero people anywhere on this planet will have been convinced to dump a perfectly functional Windows 10 for Linux by a friendly nerd. If anything they'll have told the friendly nerd "sod off, and don't touch my computer".
Re:I see this as a solid indicator (Score:2)
However, plenty have been tricked into *grading to Windows 11.
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And no one cared. People use computers not OSes. The only thing most people noticed is the start button isn't in the bottom left and judging by my colleagues, maybe less than 1% actually even cared about that since there's a feature to justify that back to the bottom left.