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Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware (www.theverge.com)
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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If Linux is to take over it must come PRE-installed, Must be fully compatible (read: plug-n-play); even with the weird printer your aunt found in a garage sale, at-least feel familiar to the majority of users… and for corpos… run MS office (read: excel) natively.

Or we could just not care if it "takes over"?

Even if Linux was and did all of those things -- and many of them are already crossed off of the list -- it may not "take over" and despite some corporate spend from some of the backing corporations, it's not really a profit driven ecosystem. Linux doesn't have to take over and do exactly what Microsoft does, Linux is just fine as is.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It actually is a profit-driven ecosystem, otherwise Mr Poettering's creations would still be something as weird and unpopular as Leechcraft, if somebody remembers that software, and so would Gnome after 2.* and KDE after 3.*, and we would probably have something more interesting instead of Wayland as the coming X11 replacement, but you are right, waiting for the rest of the world to move to Linux before you do is an illogical position to say the least.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not solely a profit-driven ecosystem is probably a better phrasing.