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Recently Microsoft released the link 365 which is basically a thin client for Azure. You can't run anything locally nor is there any local files. It literally just connects you to a desktop elsewhere.

Do you think this is what Windows 12 might look like? I feel like this idea is not practical for average consumers. Maybe they will make something that's like Chrome OS?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

They'll make whatever sells subscriptions at this point.

Don't buy, only subscribe. From media to software and now to hardware and OS. No more license keys you can reuse, no more owning what you pay for, just live services and ever-rising subscription costs that can change at any time for any reason and neuters your ability to take legal action against them while they do it.

Silence critics, control available options, capture profit - that's the name of the game. They'll sell this to businesses as 'take your PC anywhere' like you couldn't already do that and then they have a hunk of plastic and silicon they need to pay out the nose for until they finally give it up. And they'll have to give it up because it literally can't run anything else on the available hardware. I'm sure folks will hack it apart but like, what's the point?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Going to print that onto a card for the next time someone asks "WhY dO yoU rUn LiNUX??"

[–] riskable 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody actually ever asks that which is why I tell them anyway 😁👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

I used Arch btw