Re: Microsoft just put this controversial Notepad feature behind a paywall

On Fri, 2/21/2025 6:10 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 20/02/2025 12:50 am, Tyrone wrote:

On Feb 18, 2025 at 9:17:46 PM EST, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

 
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Running Windows in a VM is one thing, I'm using Wine as I type
this to run Forte Agent as my preferred NNTP client, under Linux,
but putting Win11 on bare metal just makes no sense, unless you
have very recent hardware.  M$ is not supporting stuff for long,
even Win10 realistically requires a certain threshold to perform
well, and 11 is just insane.  And Apple is a money pit.  Linux is
the only option.

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Linux is AN option.   Certainly not the best for most users.

 
"Certainly not the best for most users" ..... because they have Windows
and.or Apple shoved down their throats from, what, Primary/Elementary
School days .... so that they will be locked onto those tracks for life
.... unless they get adventurous and try something else!!

If the audience asks for options, we give them the options.

That's what this place is for.

But the assembled audience, also knows the education level of the
visitors. What is taught in our schools ? For example, no matter
what platform you're headed for, if you "can't make a USB stick",
you are kinda screwed.

In fact, you will attract exactly zero of the audience, because
if you put on your magical reality glasses, you would see the head-down
tribe trundling along the landscape. And the head-down tribe is the
lost generation, not redeemable, can't be hooked up to any desktop
at all. They're just too fucking busy, scrolling with what is
left of their thumb.

So why be delusional ? Be realistic. You can save the ones that have
not been absorbed into the SmartPhone matrix. The rest are a dead loss.
They will be neither Windows users nor Linux users. And they won't
be Mac users, because the middle class is hollowed out, and nobody has
the money for flashy tat.

   Paul