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

On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-28 8:40 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

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

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

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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."

 
I moved from XP to Linux and Linux wasn't shit. Windows Vista, now that
truly was shit.

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It wasn't good on poor hardware, but it ran rather well on decent
hardware. The only issue I ever faced with it (out of beta) was that it
took an exceptionally long time to refresh the Windows Explorer. It
suggested that my filesystem was complex when it wasn't. At the time, I
actually preferred to just use Linux too, but 7 brought me back.

I have a laptop that still has Vista on it. A dell E6400 Dual Core. I bought
it cheap several years ago on Craig's List. It came with a pirated version
of Windows 7 corporate something or other, which I deleted. It had a Vista
license, so I put some effort into finding Vista for it, installing it and
finding the drivers. By this time Vista had been abandoned, so it was the
latest version. I dual-booted Linux Mint on that computer, so hardly ever
used Vista — it was just a challenge to see if I could install it. By the
end of its run, Vista was pretty much Windows 7, but that's not how it
started when it was first released. I still have that computer and it will
still dual-boot, to outdated Vista and outdated Linux Mint 18. I kind of
keep it as a backup, but even the latest release of Vista didn't seem too
impressive to me. (I had already been using Linux for about several years by
the time I used Vista.)

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