I know what you mean. Likewise, I've never paid MS for any of their products (or any other company for that matter, lol ๐). So, if pushing comes to shoving and LTSC still comes with this bullshit, bye bye dual boot ๐ ๐.
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Yeah, they are. Which doesn't stop you from pirating them. I use them on all my rigs IF I had to to use Windows.
You didn't, but you should be.
Nah, ReactOS is a waste of time and effort. It's like constantly trying to guess what the other person is holding in his hand by doing questionares with the guy... you're bound to lose if he's always 10 steps ahead of you.
On the other hand, Wine, thanks to Proton, is doing quite well.
The point is to transition to a subscription based OS. You subscribe, pay a monthly fee for services like Teams, Outlook, etc.
The LTSC editions probably won't ship with that bullshit, so it's probably safe to say that they can still be usable even after completely transitioning to a subscription based OS.
Yeah, you're right about the last part.
Don't use Mint or Arch, use Void!
shit dude, that's about the only place where I have to use windows ๐.
newbie or somewhat experienced user?
uuu, nice, smooth ๐ ๐
Was gonna say that, but was afraid of the repercusions... Lemmy has gotten quite sensitive lately.
Uuum, no.
To be perfectly honest, building software for a fixed set of hardware products is a piece of cake. Doing it for every bit of hardware on this earth, yeah, that is PITA. So, even though I don't like MS at all, I have to hand it to them in the conpatibility department. Not as backwards compatible as Linux, but they sure are a close second.
Buidling software for an already stable as fuck platform (*BSD) is a lot easier, plus you already know what hardware it's gonna run on, lol. You cherry pick security/bug fixes and everything else regarding optimizations gets thrown under the carpet... and of course you charge your customers for the security/bug fixes, that's always a plus ๐.