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   Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 15:21:45 JST Jeff Geerling

   I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 15:45:21 JST 翠星石

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     • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
     • Gangolf
     @lightweight @gang0lf @geerlingguy It's odd to try to compare a proprietary kernel to proprietary OS's - as the only point of comparison is the proprietaryness.
     
     All BSDs are frankly just functionally terrible and are of no real competition to GNU.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 15:45:22 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Gangolf

     @gang0lf @geerlingguy There're always the BSDs

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     Gangolf (gang0lf@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 15:45:25 JST Gangolf

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     • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     @lightweight @geerlingguy I doubt Linux would be at the same level, it is now, without competition.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 15:45:27 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     @geerlingguy they're way too late - I switched happily to Linux **checks watch** 31 years ago, almost to the day. But yeah, it'd be very cool if the rest of the digital world realised what they're missing, though, and made the switch. The world would be far better without Microsoft in it.