
Most people would still have a hard time switching to Ubuntu, but then again most people (outside of HN audience) have no use for the file manager, or are using work computers that somebody else is maintaining. Some computers in my household are already on Linux. But I have to admit, those are some pretty slim threads tying me down to Windows. I've stuck with Windows so far, just because of battery life and touch screen support, and a single Visual Basic macro that I'd have to write a replacement for. And they're not likely to ever recover that cost in sales: the people who want it are already using the Windows or Mac version, and the people they might sell to are already productive and skilled with Linux options. It's not free to assign developers to port to even a reasonably narrow subset of toolkits and libraries to target the most users, and having a lawyer go over the licenses to see about packing it in costs money. I also don't fault them or Linux as a whole for the people who badger about it while ignoring the needs of the person they're pestering, but not everyone is able to make that distinction, and it comes to reflect poorly on the software.Īs for ports of the stuff I do use, it seems the fault is in the lack of cohesion. No, aren't going to do as replacements (for the nth time), but it's not at all their fault. Some of them are their own worst enemy, but most really do seem to try. It's not fair for people to compare solid efforts to commercial software with solid funding and huge userbases for feedback. I always feel bad for the developers of the better GUI Linux tools.

The ads will only get worse year after year because it's all shareholder driven, and they will likely lobby other software and hardware manufacturers to not support alternate options like Linux.

Consumer Protection has failed us totally because they too invested deeply into these extortionist big corporations. This is the issue with modern software development, even the things we buy can be suddenly changed at the drop of a dime into a subscription service cash cow for big industry and we'll have no choice of escaping it all.

It's very troubling to me how a device (that I paid a lot of money for mind you) would do this without any sort of courtesy, and in such a disrespectful manner.
MACBOOK PRO BOOTCAMP WINDOWS 10 SOUND LOW UPGRADE
Even after a reboot, the computer was totally prevented from being useable until I answered the question, so I could not even search to see if it was an exploit, or even if the upgrade was successful for other users with the same model laptop as me.
MACBOOK PRO BOOTCAMP WINDOWS 10 SOUND LOW UPDATE
I have Windows 10 on my laptop and the other day it forced me to decide on if I wanted to update to Windows 11 or not in a "Now or Never" kind of way before even startup occurred.
