Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:12 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2025-01-02 20:58, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 15:04:58 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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It's possible that a lot of models come with Pro. Nevertheless, Home is
still shipped on a lot of the computers sold. This laptop came with Home
but I upgraded it using my Pro license.

>
I never paid attention buy scrolling down Amazon's laptop selection it
looks like $400 is the dividing line although there are flyers on both
sides. Some showed 'Windows 11 S' which I didn't know about. I suppose if
you were buying a laptop for your grandmother restricting it to only run
Microsoft Store apps might be good, knowing Granny won't be able to figure
out how to turn S off. Learn something new every day.

 
A laptop that limits a Windows user to applications in the Windows Store
is limiting that user to limited amount of very limited software.

There is a short procedure, for taking the laptop out of "S" mode,
so you can move on. The majority of users, that's the first thing
they do. The only annoyance, is setting up an MSA long enough to
complete the removal procedure.

Only IT departments seek to shackle users to the drain pipe.

Q2 2022
Microsoft Store
   44,275 gaming apps    [copies of Flappy Birds, down from the original 200,000 copies]
     10,000 apps hosted
   personalization category
     192 mobile titles       [these statistics seem rather suspect]

And Linux is in the store, as Bash shell distros via WSL/WSLg.
Done out of sequence, you will be told there is a step to do,
before the Store will do the download (set up Bash shell to load distro).
The distro stays in a container (a previous version was a file tree).

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/sxNWHpSS/Good-Times-At-The-Store.gif

My Linux container "ext4.vhdx" is currently 8GB in size.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/0QpQBTgv/Ubuntu-On-W11-Home-Bash.gif

   Paul