They charge money for a free OS, but they don’t use that money to provide more than installation support. They don’t offer troubleshooting support or upstream improvements.

I think it’s better to have a work computer and home computer. Not just for ease of switching to Linux, but also because doing anything personal on your work computer is a security risk.

I feel like when people have a work computer (running Windows usually) the switch to Linux is generally far easier. Work is the most important thing someone might need Windows for.

Microsoft is accelerating that trend with incompetence and greed, not as a strategy.

Problem is that Mint and Zorin don’t take security as seriously as they should, and so I’m worried about the risks that would pose.

Plus Zorin is a bit problematic for other reasons.

FFS Altman.

Phones have already become the mainstream computer, Microsoft is accelerating that trend.

You think choosing your Linux distro is bad, imagine having to choose your electricity, water, internet, phone, banking, and insurance provider as well as your local councillor, workplace, school, career, entertainment, childcare, car, house, food, etc.

This “love choice, hate choosing” is a really valuable thing to understand.

I think the hardest part of moving over is the temptation to dual-boot. Linux is better, but if you have Windows 11 installed and you need to boot into it for something or other, you’re never going to use Linux.

And then there are the challenges of setting up a VM in Linux.,

Don’t swap to Ladybird, it won’t be completely secure when (or if) it releases and so far there’s nothing going for it other than it not being Firefox or Chrome. If you’re gonna swap then use the Servo browser which is already actually out.

It was a dog, not Homer.

Ramping up supply costs money, and the AI bubble is on the verge of popping. They’d need to know that this demand would be sticking around before investing in higher fab capacity.

Fast-boot normally involves saving Windows to a swap partition and basically just half-hibernating. If that swap partition is shared with Linux it’d get overwritten and the boot method would swap to the slower one.

As far as I know there’s no way to make a swap partition be exclusive to Linux or vice-versa.

Only if you have a swap partition, and if you dual-boot then that swap partition is gonna be overwritten all the time.

He did. Where he said the article looked AI generated and so he wasn’t going to waste any time with it.