I’ve been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a while, with Windows as the fall-back option in case I wanted to use Office for something. Now that they tried to trick me into paying a subscription for their AI slop machine, I’m finally, fully out. It was a pain to actually track down and back-up the stuff that was held for ransom in OneDrive, but now it is done.
I mean at this point the backline damage the flank of WINE and proton alone have done to the categories of “infeasible” and “impractical” in terms of when you have to throw your hands up and pick another battle and just accept a defacto hegemony of Microsoft in this space is immense and so far reaching Microsoft has likely lost the ability to perceive and evaluate the full extent of things.
A whole generation of computer weirdo kids (can I call them an army?) are looking at Windows and thinking “I mean, fuck that shit why even bother?”.
For those of us too old to understand the ease in which kids will do this compared to how excruciatingly long this kind of thing felt impossible in the past… just imagine how you see a fax machine, sure you might have to learn to use one at work but you wouldn’t look at one like a creative engine of possibility even if you sat there all day making important business happen with a fax machine at your day job. It is a fax machine to send faxes according to the rules dictated by some organization, that is it…
I am HYPED for steam os desktops and more linux gaming in general, it is gonna be an incredible story.