Yes.Does the Linux forum have a bunch of Microsoft trolls shitting in every thread that opens?
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Yes.Does the Linux forum have a bunch of Microsoft trolls shitting in every thread that opens?
Yes.
Does the Linux forum have a bunch of Microsoft trolls shitting in every thread that opens?
It's UAC and there is no actual Administrator account in Windows anymore, that was removed way back when Vista came into being and UAC was first introduced - it might be labeled "Administrator" but it has nothing in common with that level of access in previous versions of Windows prior to Vista. There are things in Windows that you simply are not allowed to do even logged in with "Administrator" privileges and that's how it should be more often than not considering. The OS will do what it has to do to protect itself from stupid users, and yes that includes people that think they're smart enough to know better than the OS or Microsoft too.
Protip: it's not your OS, as needs to be repeated from time to time.
I fixed your post for you, Microsoft are not the saviours of personal computing nor do they care for you as a consumer, they only care about the colour of what's in your back pocket. Although you are right, as it stands now Windows is the most versatile OS out there for the consumer and with that comes security issues in an attempt to make an OS compatible with the unknowledgeable masses, so in itself this is not necessarily a good thing.
If you don't realize that most things Windows includes today were made by someone else in an alternative OS before that, you need to study some computing history. Windows has always been behind in development.
You mean like many things in large companies are made by someone else? And no, you are not correct, most things done by Microsoft are done by Microsoft. However, like most other large companies they do buy up small promising companies and utilize their expertise. But please, start showing actually proof of what you say, because for the life of me, I can't find any.
First off, which competitors are you imagining they killed off with this practice? You mention Microsoft kills off all these other competitors but have yet to provide any examples of what competitors, just comments to typical business practices done by most companies.
No! If I want to blow my box to smithereens, then the OS should allow me to do so if I so desire to do so as an Administrator. I'm being serious. I don't want the OS babying me and treating me like a kid who doesn't know better. I should be allowed to login as Administrator or a user with Administrative powers and explode my box if I so dare choose. When an OS is so faulty and broken that it has to stop the user from doing what they want to do, that's when you know it's time to throw it in the garbage.
First off, which competitors are you imagining they killed off with this practice? You mention Microsoft kills off all these other competitors but have yet to provide any examples of what competitors, just comments to typical business practices done by most companies.
Nobody is being forced to use Windows, nobody, anywhere, except maybe people working at Microsoft itself but they're getting paid to use it so that's that.
Please go and study. I'm not going to spend time educating your ass. Just as a couple of examples Amiga had a graphical desktop and true multithread operation when most PC:s were still running DOS.
When the day comes that the OS isn't force installed on 99% of OEM devices out there, you may have a case. Until then the OS is literally forced onto the consumer, they aren't making a conscious decision in relation to choice of OS, nine times out of ten they're purchasing Windows products as it's obvious "they're cheaper than the Apple alternative" and it's all everyone knows.
Protip: nobody is being forced to use Windows, nothing is stopping anyone from installing another OS on a personal computer (even SecureBoot BS doesn't prevent that anymore), and nobody is being forced to use a computer either, for that matter.
But you keep right on beating that dead horse, by all means.
So what about systems that are forced to have OSX, or systems that are forced to have Solaris, or systems that are forced to have other OS's? You forget that MS was created to open the OEM market up so you could have competition in hardware. Without MS, we may never have had the open competition in hardware in the PC market. That doesn't mean MS is awesome, it just means you are cutting out a large part of PC history and using blinders towards one company.
You can't expect customers ...
So what about systems that are forced to have OSX, or systems that are forced to have Solaris, or systems that are forced to have other OS's? You forget that MS was created to open the OEM market up so you could have competition in hardware. Without MS, we may never have had the open competition in hardware in the PC market. That doesn't mean MS is awesome, it just means you are cutting out a large part of PC history and using blinders towards one company.
Yes, actually I can.
Then it's a good thing that I never signed any kind of agreement with Microsoft in the decades I was building machines with my bare hands and putting whatever OS the customer's wanted on 'em, phew.
Then it's a good thing that I never signed any kind of agreement with Microsoft in the decades I was building machines with my bare hands and putting whatever OS the customer's wanted on 'em, phew.
Couldn't sell you a machine with no OS at all even if they wanted to.
Amiga didn't die off because of Microsoft, it died off because of its own issues. It is funny you would bring up Amiga though, as Microsoft actually wrote software for AmigaOS. Amiga died because of poor marketing and management by Commodore, not specifically because of Microsoft. In fact, the biggest problem is Commodore kept insisting on marketing it as a gaming system instead of a full blown home computer (which it was). Game developers stopped developing games for the Amiga several years before it became defunct because gaming systems had surpassed the abilities of the Amiga. Also you seem to think the Amiga was top of the line, but it wasn't. By its end it was lagging behind other systems which had surpassed its capabilities. It started off as state of the art, but it got caught in a muddle of mismanagement and lack of direction under the control of Commodore. But you know, maybe I should educate myself about it...
Also what is even funnier about this example is the fact that Amiga was run by a company that was even less interested in sharing anything than Microsoft. Amiga was designed on specific systems and was closed, just like the Apple computers. In fact, the only OS really designed to work on different systems and hardware at the time was Microsoft until Linux came about. OS/2 Warp was also a pretty good system, it was co-developed by IBM and Microsoft. Microsoft pulled out of the partnership though, and IBM didn't have a real interest in marketing it or supporting it on its own. I have fond memories of both Amiga and OS/2 Warp as I learned on them really before I used any DOS system. I was never really a fan of DOS, I was using OS/2 and I picked up Linux as soon as it came out. When OS/2 support dropped a bit and it wasn't going to be carried, I went with Linux and been with Linux to this day.
The problem is people like to post one-liners about companies and then say they are solely responsible, but the truth is far more complex. Did Microsoft have a hand in many competitors losing out? Yes, of course they were in competition to them. But Microsoft also had direct involvement in the initial success of many of those companies too. What happened many times is Microsoft would help a company, and then that company would turn around and start working with a competitor and using specific methodologies that MS helped develop to improve a competitors product. That itself is shady, and MS responded with cutthroat business, many times trying to cut that company out from the knees in response to that company's actions. But Microsoft was not the sole reason those companies or systems died out. Many of them caused their own demise because of poor decisions. This is true of the history of many large companies. I just find it disingenuous that MS is singled out when many other tech companies have done the same or worse.
Protip: They can, and they do.
Such a long post and you totally missed the SUBJECT of the post. What you wrote has zero to do with the fact that Microsoft has not been the driving innovation, it has always copied the works of others and used illegal business practices to drive other businesses out of business.
It's not the dominant OS for being the best, far from it.
Not in Australia they don't, I can't even by an XPS 13 developer edition with Ubuntu preinstalled and I have a market for it.
Protip: Yes, you can, I've got a client in Melbourne that just got one 3 weeks ago, from in-country, loves the thing to death compared to the MacBook Pro he previously owned and is quite happy with the Linux base on it since he like myself and many others simply will not use Windows 10. Of course he's had a Dell Corporate account for 27 years now so, he gets whatever the fuck he wants, go figure.
YMMV, of course.
It really gets troublesome when you put info in a post and it just gets dismissed, you know.
He's done like $18 million worth of business with Dell in Australia over the years, so I'll say it again: he gets whatever the fuck he wants, and I'll leave it at that.
$18 million? Right.
So my point still stands, in Australia you cannot buy an XPS 13/15 developer edition laptop with Ubuntu installed.
So my point still stands, in Australia you cannot buy an XPS 13/15 developer edition laptop with Ubuntu installed.
I never said I could, I said you could, but if you're just not in good enough with Dell Australia or a large enough customer on the reseller side of things, well, then maybe you can't. It's all about relationships more than money to be honest, and having Dell (anywhere) provide you a machine with Linux installed on it isn't nearly as difficult as you might believe.
See, now you're cookin' with fire, I knew you'd figure it sooner or later and hence my point: it is possible. You think someone that's done $18 million of business with Dell is doing it with consumer class hardware?
See, now you're cookin' with fire, I knew you'd figure it sooner or later and hence my point: it is possible. You think someone that's done $18 million of business with Dell is doing it with consumer class hardware?
You assume too much, Padawan, and when you go that far in your attempts to gain some traction, well, it never works out quite like you thought it would when you took that first step but we understand, honestly we do.
Or do they make a play to destroy MS main windows market thus killing their growing ad dollars before people start seriously saying "bing it' instead of "Google it" LMAO ok no one is ever saying that.