Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)RE: https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116169811479781603
Jeez, this sound awful.
Alexandra@ellieraejaye I love it already, it sounds great! I'm so sad none of my hardware will ever be able to run it.
Also, don't you love that...
Chip makers: not enough chip production to fulfill consumption of datacenters + the rest of the world
MS: I'll need a third (after CPU and GPU) dedicated chip to run my OS.
Also MS: Perfect!
@ellieraejaye and come on! Don't you love another subscription?!
@AlexInBlue yeah, requiring the TPM chip for 11 was bad enough but requiring an NPU chip sounds like a ridiculous idea. And who would want to pay a subscription just to be able to use your computer? Stupid. I'm starting to think they want people to move to Linux now.
@ellieraejaye The TPM did and does have some good reasons tied to security.
The NPU chip is simply ridicolous but... it make sense if you look at their POV that AI must be everywhere, you need it just to breath, clearly we will need an NPU to poop soon, I look forward to this. Not to mention that it will generate another wagon load of tech wastes and prices of components will raise *even more*.
However... all together... in the end, it make sense: you enforce more consumption to fight against the consumer less/reuse trend, you enforce the enrichment of fews as the companies making hardware are a well known small group, you enforce AI in everywhere which is the dream of tech bros.
The subscription is on trend with "subscription everything" that sells so well, second only to AI, in the big tech bros circle, where you won't own anything but subscribe to everything because it's easier, safer and cheaper for the consumer. I think Amazon said it or some other idiot that they "see the world" as subscripe for a remote desktop somewhere in the cloud while paying a subscription for the cloud as much as for the minimal hardware needed to connect.
@AlexInBlue oh yeah, I remember reading something about desktops being remote in the future. I can't say I'm a fan of that, I like to have my stuff here with me (hence I also still buy CDs and blu-rays). If you lose your internet connection for whatever reason? Well tough, you can't use your PC anymore.
@ellieraejaye it's worse than just loosing your PC... you loose all your data... you loose all the control over said data... you loose "yourself" because everything is up there, somewhere in the cloud.
I know it sounds dystopic but that's the direction they are pushing for.
And no, you don't have to like it, you do have to accept it as the ineluttable fact that it will be so and be part of the system. The Tech Bros has spoken. Fuck 'em.
@AlexInBlue it'll be interesting to see how things go with Linux in the coming years. I have been playing around with setting up Plex on my old PC that has Linux Mint on it, and that was tricky. LM is nice to use for the most part, though. I wonder if it's still just a bit too fiddly to use for the average PC owner.
@ellieraejaye in my opinion, Linux got a lot better UI/UX wise and it will grow but it has issues that will keep it away from truly supplanting Windows and iOS.
To be able to manage Linux you need to know how to search around the web and dig through the innards of the OS, this is not something everyone is able to. Packet managers are not obvious for a normal person. I know what I'm doing and I still screamed at Linux Mint because some specific packages I needed were outdated in the standard packet manager with no info if and when they will be updated so I had to take a long detour around. Flatpak has issues and it's like moving from Windows Store to Canonical store, the moment Canonical choose to go "full tech bro" you're back into the pan and still Flatpak has technical issues.
The compatability with hardware can be finnicky, as the discussion in the past "if you plan to tell a person "just move to Linux" you should be willing to support them for them to hash out all the issues that will crop up".
It is missing software. Big software suites like Adobe, software which are considered sectors' standards that we like it or not, are not on Linux. Which means you often have to build a mix of things as you don't have a "one stop shop" like MS and that makes it hard for companies' fleet, especially in smaller companies. And also Enterprise level support is not always there for every distro.
Last but not least... the sheer width of the offer: you ask 10 people, you get 23 different Linux OS recommendations, it is overhelming.
@AlexInBlue exactly, Linux doesn't have that level of support (or you get told to RTFM). To be honest, Adobe is one of the things that's keeping me on Windows for now (well, that and all the gaming, plus Ableton Live), and I don't really fancy doing all the necessary fudging to get it all working properly. If they did start creating their apps for Linux, that'd be interesting! In regards of gaming, it's nice that Steam are giving Linux a lot of attention. Hopefully this'll mean there'll be a lot of Linux support for games in the future.
Maybe it's just because I've been looking more into it and therefore algorithms are pointing me in that direction, but it does seem to me that there's a bit of a consensus that Linux Mint is a good place to move to, at least at first, maybe that will help things.
@ellieraejaye I can totally understand what you mean. Adobe is just one example because I know it, but there are others. Sometimes there are alternatives, sometimes there are not.
Yeah, Steam building on Linux did propell a lot the gaming on Linux paradigm that until 10 years ago or less was unheard of, you knew you wouldn't game on Linux. So, I'm moderately hopeful that more games will support that... if the gaming industry can get around building walls again "because this is exclusive on this console, or that console" and with "subscribe TO MEEEEEE!" models. I don't care about competitive but they do make a good chuck of best selling games and the issue with anti-cheats is an issue.
Yeah, in my researches too Linux Mint was the best easy-to-start alternative if you didn't want the classic Canonical Ubuntu.
@AlexInBlue my dad's got Windows 10 on his laptop and can't upgrade it, but it's still working. He only uses it for emails and the internet, so when it starts to become an issue I think I'll just install Linux Mint on it for him, I really don't think it'll be a problem for him if he's not doing anything else on it. When it comes to basic uses like that, I think switching to Linux Mint would be fairly effortless.
@ellieraejaye technically it's already an issue as Win10 support officially ended last October. I'm not sure if, as UK, you're part of the EU market that got the security updates extension till October 2026. Or if you have paid you have a bit more support but still not a lot, unless you're an enterprise customer. I think?
That could work. Updating stuff if you don't use Flatpak will require some support I think but for such limited use cases, I would attempt it! Especially if you're relatively close physically.
@AlexInBlue not sure about the extended support thing. I'm pretty sure he doesn't pay for anything like that.
If he starts getting issues I'll suggest it to him again I think.