Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 28, 2023

Oh God is it time to run to Linux?

#Windows #Microsoft #Linux

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

Microsoft’s long-term ambition with Windows is to move the OS to the cloud. Windows 365 is just the beginning on the commercial side, with plans to get consumers into a cloud version of Windows eventually.

The Verge
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Jun 28, 2023
@liztai Enshittification seems to be inherent to our current economical incentive system.
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 28, 2023
@ainmosni Those companies, so eager to bring us into their little walled gardens... though "gardens" is too nice a word to describe an ecosystem where they can just continue to up the price endlessly.
Show threadManiac Marmotte Jun 28, 2023
@liztai @ainmosni if you are looking for ownership, you cannot rely on proprietary software, never could. I wouldn't say it's "time" to move to Linux, but rather it's "not too late"!
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

@ManiacMarmotte @liztai The problem is that for less patient/less technical users, open source solutions have often just been too tedious or annoying to use in their daily lives.

These days, I'd say the Linux desktop is in a much better state, even though I think we should look at a more user friendly way of full disk encryption.

Jun 28, 2023 at 6:24amWeb
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 28, 2023
@ainmosni @ManiacMarmotte Yeah speaking as one that exists in the grey zone between ordinary user and outright dev, it's an issue EVEN for me.
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Jun 28, 2023
@liztai @ManiacMarmotte The odd thing, at least for me, is that I find Linux to be much more "ainmosni"-friendly than the alternatives, but that might also just be stockholm syndrome. :P
Show threadManiac Marmotte Jun 28, 2023
@ainmosni @liztai from my observation, "normies" don't have much difficulty moving from Windows or MacOS to Linux, as 95% of their computing is done with web-browser. The people more difficult to switch are professionals and tech-savy persons that are relying on more proprietary tools for their work/hobby, which are purposely made to NOT work on Linux (e.g: Adobe, SOLIDWORKS, online videogames with Anti-Cheats)
Show threadAnita LewisJun 28, 2023

@ManiacMarmotte @ainmosni @liztai

ManiacMarmotte, I totally agree. My Mom (93) has been using Linux for 15 years (Ubuntu flavor) She uses word processor, browser, movies, email (Thunderbird) and she loves the speed and ease. She has in-house tech support, but the problems are things that happen in Windows, too. Upgrades are easier than in Windows. Yes, in 1990s there was a bigger learning curve, but the change over doesn't take long. There is a huge amount of online help when needed.