Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?

Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 2024-05-27 9:33 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 27 May 2024 07:53:13 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

On 2024-05-26 7:18 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Sun, 26 May 2024 09:06:43 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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I upgraded to Linux from Windows XP.

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You're in the minority no matter how you spin it.

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Where are the Windows XP users? Gone.
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Where are the Linux users? More numerous than ever.
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Who’s the “minority” now?

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Linux, still. The XP users went to 7 once they could and upgraded their
machines.

 
Really? Windows 7? Is that the best the poor things could do?

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Are you purposefully dense? I'm going in chronological order.
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Those who had machines which could capably run Windows XP did so until
2014 when Microsoft stopped supporting the product. At that point, if
they saw the lack of support as a problem, they upgraded their machines
to one running 7 or 8.1. They didn't say "let me hold onto this 2001
machine and run some shit Linux distribution on it."

Or they did what the Navy did around 2015:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-navy-pays-out-millions-to-microsoft-to-keep-running-windows-xp/

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