“Run and buy that turkey in the shop window and I’ll give you a shilling!”

“For what reason do you want a turkey on your Arch Linux, sir?”

This is such a bad editorial it isn’t just the worst one of the year, it’s on the short list for worst oped of the century. Right up there with the guy who said that we should replace libraries with Amazon stores.

No. I mean the push to switch away from Windows 7. Windows 8 was released in 2012, which is when Microsoft began pushing users to switch. The end of extended support is almost a footnote; it doesn’t even register as a blip for most users. It’s the release of the successor that begins the big marketing push.

I don’t think so. The big switchover push for 7 (like what’s happening now with 10) happened in 2012.

Tough to do, and do right, but I’m down. Still, until that day…

Audacity

You may want to switch to Tenacity. Audacity was purchased by a company in 2021 that super promises not to try to sneak telemetry into the program. Again. For the third time.

Tenacity is a fork of Audacity without any of that nonsense.

Or, more likely, just borrow the money. Then they get to keep everything they have. They have plenty of stuff as collateral to secure it with.

At least you could use it to make pretty much everything else!

On smartphones you can tap and hold, and on physical keyboards there’s usually an alt key combo you can put in.

It is used that way here, yes. I’m not familiar with any other meaning.

This is fascinating to learn.

When Windows 7 reached EOL in 2012, ChromeOS wasn’t even a year old, MacOS was too expensive, SteamOS wasn’t close on the horizon, tablets weren’t really usable, smartphones were severely underpowered, and most applications didn’t have web-based versions or replacements.

This time around, none of those things are true, and Windows 11 lost market share last month (which is frankly unprecedented).

Plus, even with that dearth of options, people griped and complained and refused for so long that Microsoft made a big marketing deal out of Windows 8.1. And even after that, they offered Windows 7 users free Windows 10 licenses to get them to upgrade.

Linux probably won’t get the crown (though I’d say a bump as high as 1-2% isn’t out of the question). It’ll probably be ChromeOS, if anything, simply because of the commanding lead Google has held for the past decade or so in K12. But in any case, if Microsoft doesn’t shift their strategy, they’re unlikely to win this one; there are a lot of options.

That’s not completely accurate. Remember, a lot of people want a full keyboard for typing; and an iPad with a keyboard is way more expensive than a mid-range Chromebook. Plus, a whole generation of students are growing up and entering the workforce having used nothing but ChromeOS for their entire middle school and high school careers; for them, a Chromebook feels very familiar.

Microsoft is VERY close to losing every install advantage they have. Gaming, corporate, devops, and government are the only use cases their leads are still in any way commanding in; and they’re fiddling while Valve puts the finishing touches on Steam OS, they’re about to lose their tenth consecutive K12 graduating class who will go into the workforce more familiar with ChromeOS than Windows, devops is increasingly moving toward web portals, and government…well, let’s face it, that’s not a particularly lucrative single game to win.

Google has already eaten Microsoft’s lunch and dinner. And now they’re about to split Windows’ breakfast with Valve. Unless they make some major changes, and quick, Microsoft is going to go into the 2030s less relevant than they’ve been in decades.

Ha…ha?

Which is why I said “supposed to,” not “in actuality.”

Let the idiots have their racist homophobic dictatorship if that’s what they want.

I’m sure it would never cause any lasting problems, sharing a substantial land border with an actively malicious enemy nation. /s

Besides, allowing them to leave because they wanted to continue actions antithetical to our values would be tacitly condoning them. “You can keep on trafficking humans, we just don’t want any part of it” is a pretty cold-blooded response.

No, letting them go was never a valid option. We just needed to actually finish reconstruction. You can thank John Wilkes Booth for eliminating that.

The people didn’t hold President Yoon accountable. Parliament did.

How do you think representative government is supposed to work?

Frankly, the American Civil War isn’t really even completely settled yet.

Yep. I work in the edtech industry, actually, and ChromeOS has something like an 80% market share. It’s an incredibly dominant platform in K12.

I literally just remembered that ChromeOS is a thing. I bet a big chunk is people seeing that they’re cheaper and deciding to switch to those. So, in a way, it kind of is Linux.