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Can't wait to see this on :reddit-logo:
China to ditch all windows by 2022
insert photo of brutalist high rise with no windows below headline
highest rated comment " Looks like the CCP can't CCSee, lal!"
You sir have won the internet for today!!!
+100000 social credit!!!!
Anne Frankly i did nazi that coming!!!!
Recent Windows is remarkably hostile, see my comment there. As a Linux user for decades, I was horrified. Awesome move from China.
Also, it's also been happening in Europe for all public stuff slowly but surely; here in France, for example, all computers for the National Assembly run Linux (Ubuntu specifically); also, all cops' precincts are now using Linux as well (a publicly funded custom distribution, GendBuntu).
Being forced to fix people's Windows computers at work has given me a similar ride. Installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 is a creepy experience.
Iirc the city of München did, but eventually switched back to Microsoft software?
:CommiePOGGERS:
Tragically it's just government services, still cool though.
did you know Robert Maxwell picked his last name after Maxwell House coffee
and that's the coffee Ghislaine made sure was on hand in Epstein's properties
His dad was one of the most powerful attorneys in Seattle, and correspondingly wealthy.
Maybe unironically this time. I could see this having an effect slowly.
Given the US's hostile public stance towarda China it only makes sense that the Chinese gov't stops using an American OS. I would be surprised if the US didn't have a backdoor into Windows.
Sending my virus boys to hold open the big tarp that has “reputable processor instructions ONLY!” spray painted on it :xinternet:
We get a linux distro that plays games okay, like the one steam is working on. And windows will be lose it's only real consumer use case
This. If I could reliably play games on Linux I'd switch tomorrow. Fuck Gates.
Duel boot? Log into windows when you want to game, use Linux for everything else.
I don't really play games on PC, so maybe there's something I'm missing, but I used to duel boot between Linux and Windows all the time for different purposes and it was great.You can set up your lan DNS/DHCP to use the same IP for both. And the virtualized instances are nice because they're scalable. If you're using virtual disks for storage, they only use up however much storage they are actually using on your drive and are hard limited by a software value. It also lets you upgrade the server later super easily by just changing values in the VM settings.
I do most of my stuff on HyperV or Virtual box. The VHD storage is also nice because it is agnostic and can be read by any system cabaple of running virtual box.
Do you track the games you play on protonDB? You might be surprised how many run perfectly fine on Linux these days, either natively or using the Proton compatibility.
The only game that I feel like I'm missing is Apex Legends, but that will probably work later this year once Easy Anticheat is ported over for it. All the other games I play (and like better) work perfectly fine.
Autodesk is really the only thing that Windows is good for outside some AAA games
I think it would slap so hard if China developed some amazing version of Linux - something far beyond the best distro we have today. Something that would be as easy as Windows to use. Make it totally free and totally open source. I mean, wouldn't that absolutely wreak havoc on Microsoft and the three letter agencies spying abilities? I'm probably missing something otherwise they would have done that by now.
China still has a vested interest in censorship and monitoring and will likely bake it into any bespoke distribution that they build, particularly for government use.
It is understandable why they do so (yellow Parenti), just unfortunate that it's necessary.
i mean if its open source, does it matter? someone can fork it and remove any spyware (if any).
I think the concern isn’t plainly installed spyware, but rather zero day vulnerabilities. However, it’s not like you need to own the project to introduce them, or discover them and wield them. At any rate, open source is the best way we can attempt to create secure software.
I suppose, though China also doesn't (and shouldn't) need to respect Western copyright laws, so it also doesn't need to make it open source.
Deepin is developed by a private company and had some spyware issues itself. Nothing more sinister than other company-associated distros (lib media really played up the sinophobic angle of sending data to cHiNeSe SeRvErS), but something to be aware of.
It's... not really necessary, unless mass surveillance is a part of building productive forces and I'm high
It's not of building productive forces, but it is arguably part of facing the threat of the imperialist worlds espionage and subterfuge operations.
Isn't something like Mint pretty much the same as Windows or MacOS? What features are we missing? I think it's just a critical mass thing, do popular apps/games/software work on Linux. What do big institutions, schools, businesses choose to use. Windows has salespeople to influence them.
On windows when I want to install something I just double click on it, but on linux you need to open console for like 90% of stuff you want to do which isn't really beginner friendly.
Downloading exe files at random on the internet isn’t as easy for most people as you think it is, you’re just used to it. Almost every popular Linux distribution has a graphical software store at this point, as well.
It's beginner friendly as soon as you've done it like 3 times.
sudo apt installThe problem with this is remember software naming and discovery.
I use Mint 98% of the time, though still dual boot Windows 10 (need it so I can keep using my Zune HD player). I love Mint and think it's way better than Windows... but it's still not close to Windows in terms of usability for people like my parents. They know, for example, to stick the thumb drive in the hole, then a folder pops up. They know if they want to install a program, they go to a website, click on the big "download now" button, and click "run" when the popup comes up. Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out why I can't install Docker properly.
Again, I love Mint and think it's better than Windows for me, but imo there's no Linux distro out there that's ready for the masses.
Considering this article isn't new, do we know yet what operating system they're using instead? Is it "Klyin" or whatever?
