Because China has always held it would start a full-scale invasion if they ever did. So everyone ignores the elephant and keeps the status quo…

While it was true for a long time, I don’t think Taiwan expects to get China back anymore. It’s more not to start WW3 for the last 30+ years

More likely it’s an outright lie.

The monkey claw tightens

Yeah, Bill Gates destroyed a lot of other companies with his OS monopoly, Dbase (Access) and Lotus 1 2 3 (Excel)…

Usually, they fail the background check, don’t have a license, their car doesn’t meet requirements. Etc

I’m not sure about the military, but yes a number of researchers used PS3s for cheap computing power.

With a Polaroid.

I suspect October will not be a huge deal. If a nasty exploit does pop-up in the wild I strongly suspect MS will back patch it for the next year probably.

You literally just doubled down on being one. Computers are here to serve people, NOT the other way around.

I’m done here.

You missed the point, expecting a non technical casual user to type in a bunch of commands that are completely foreign to them. And they don’t understand, is a failure of the OS. Full stop.

“As one example I personally think “sudo apt install name-of-program” is just a more straightforward and easier experience than browsing an app store or downloading an installer.”

Spoken like a true techie cultist that doesn’t comprehend how a typical casual user thinks.

It’s not intimidating it is a archaic unneeded hindrance.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind CLI for advanced users and advanced niche technical stuff.

But when an average non technical user needs to open CLI to install the OS, applications, or drivers for standard computing uses. That is a complete failure of the OS in a desktop environment.

I’ve read several articles about win 11, putting ads on the start menu.

Yeah this one of the cases where not upgrading is better.

If you mostly play FPS online and/or fast paced games, it can make a difference.

Yeah, this has been huge for productivity for me. Or looking at huge spreadsheets.

How is co-op mode?

I have Samsung tablet been missing 5 years

I find them mildly annoying, but generally tune them out.

The offensive responses, are much worse. Linux users can VERY much be a “boys club” and treat newcomers as lower life forms.

To keep your interests separate, to prevent doxing, to break up your post history, etc.