Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based operating system

Re:Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based opera... by cjbgkagh on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:07PM (#37794059)

I have a bottle of champagne put aside for when I can finally quit windows. I’m actively porting my software stack and dependencies to cross platform so it’ll be pretty soon. They’ve clearly taken their monopoly position for granted and now there is serious inertia behind getting rid of them. I’m actually responding to customer demand for cross platform so the customers are clearly hating windows as well.

The thing about ads is that quite often whatever you will pay to remove it, someone will pay more to put it back. Paying to remove ads is a signal that you’re the exact kind of person they want to send ads to. So not having ads has to both be either a moral position instead or a long term sustainability position. Microsoft expect their monopoly status to sustain them and have been ratcheting up their abuse of their monopoly to extract more money. In my view they’re on track to losing that privilege.

Just recently YouTube has started blocking videos due to add blocker presence. I already pay producers via patreon and I guess I will just go watch over there. YouTube is a bad habit I need to break and their new policy will help me do that.

Oh, and while I’m shitting in windows; the defender has made file access almost unusably slow, and I get intermittent stuttering both in games and with music on an absolute overkill of a computer speced this way precisely because it needs to run windows.

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Re:Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based opera... by adolph on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:19PM (#37794225)

> I have a bottle of champagne put aside for when I can finally quit windows.

This is an odd incentive. One might consider it as a reason for using Windows as long as possible, since the bottle would be of a mature vintage and worth more?

It's kind of like the furniture store that refunds people's mattress purchases if the baseball team wins. Given the advantage of not making people's purchase free retroactively, the promotion is kind of like betting against the team even though it is proclaimed as if it is in support of the team.

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Re:Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based opera... by cjbgkagh on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:26PM (#37794328)

If age was a consideration I would have bought an older bottle. I'm not a connoisseur, or even a lush. It's a large bottle so that I can share it with my friends, I'm the last windows holdout so they're waiting on me. My windows experience isn't even that bad as I disable most of the crap they try to foist upon me. It's the forced breaking upgrades that have caused the most personal grief. Apart from that it really is about responding to customer demand. I'd like to buy an apple laptop and hopefully by then there is a really good linux experience. I'd hate to go from Windows anti-consumerism to Apple anti-consumerism but it's hard to get good laptop hardware.

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Re:Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based opera... by gridlocdev on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:37AM (#37799255)

I switched to Linux around the time the TPM stuff started since my hardware was “no longer supported” on Windows 11, and honestly more people should try Linux. I feel like aside from multiplayer online gaming (where anticheat is basically a self-inflicted rootkit) there’s not much missing here. Most Steam games are playable thanks to Valve, I legitimately almost never need to touch the terminal since apps are containerized now and distros ship a software store application to manage them, and the major desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) all have a stable and modern-looking UI.

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