Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it

Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by dartharva on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:27AM (#36020199)

Linux is already widely used in govt and public servant computers. It's easy to do that, but to do it "for the masses" is an entirely different game.

To this day, laptop and desktop computers "for the masses" exist almost solely for office work and gaming. Windows and Microsoft products are too ingrained in both use cases, so it will take a herculean effort in changing software standards and platforms for app vendors to consider Linux.

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Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by dotcoma on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:29AM (#36020209)

I'm sure it's going to take a herculean effort, but hight time somebody took on the challenge.

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Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by brookst on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:55AM (#36020419)

Please keep us posted on your progress!

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Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by dotcoma on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:21PM (#36078994)

I am a lurker, not a programmer. Sorry.

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Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by pydry on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:31AM (#36020223)

The effort required is mainly in preventing Microsoft from subtly pressuring OEMs to either not offer Linux or to cripple their offerings.

The year of the Linux desktop ought to have started with the netbook craze of 2007 but Microsoft's nuclear response to that (free windows licenses, ordering OEMs to cap netbook RAM at 2GB) successfully choked that market segment in its sleep.

There are, unfortunately, an awful lot of ways Microsoft can still subtly bring legally deniable pressure to bear on OEMs and antitrust enforcement in America is a joke anyhow.

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Re:Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by revelio on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:22PM (#36023944)

Chromebooks managed it, made by OEMs. The issue with Linux is pervasively user-hostile design in the name of GNU ideology, not Microsoft

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