Sounds like we're about to get a lot more Linux users!

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@dazo i hope so

@bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad

[bmoreinis@federated.press]

@dazo @bweller @mttaggart @catsalad I know.... but I manage a mutual aid team service that puts Mint on old donated devices and trains and supports users who need them, is all. It's what folks know. <sigh>

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@mttaggart

Let's be kind to them, everyone. We were all Linux newbies once!

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mttaggart Great update, from something that nobody wants right now to something that nobody wants to see at a distance in a whole lifetime.
Microslop marketing must had some insight by the armageddon guys.

[pl@cosocial.ca]

@mttaggart seriously someone should try to vibe code a Linux distro just to see how much better it would be compared to Windows

[davecb@hachyderm.io]

@mttaggart Re: Microsoft 12
After a company stops growing they need to do something else, to keep the profits increasing. Often that can be bad for their customers:

https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/grow-or-die/

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@mttaggart that could be a hard sale especially if they repeat win 11 up min required hardware given AI companies are basically buying up all the ram, etc they can get a hold of jacking the prices up for the rest of us. And then there is the last two years of absolute disaster patch day after another with more breaking or even bricking machines than not...

[rpsu@mas.to]

@tess @mttaggart YearOfLinuxDesktop_updated-final _FINAL_v1.8.exe

[ditol@freiburg.social]

@bweller
Just a correction: Shrimp Jesus fucking Christ.
@bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad

[kaaswe@swecyb.com]

@mttaggart
I remember Microsoft bragging hard that Windows 10 was the last version to be shipped ever. New features were supposed to come as regular updates.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

Oh cool PCWorld just printed lies/slop I guess.

No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan

A new report has caught the internet's attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here's why that's wrong.

Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@crackhappy @bweller @bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad Ubuntu said that's an open list discussion, not commentary from the developers or anything official. It's not instant anything, fortunately.

[winterknight1337@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart welp. Guess I get to remove them from ye olde RSS feed.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

They've added a retraction/apology, but once bitten twice shy.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@mttaggart

wait they added AI to everything that nobody wanted, and made it so you can't move the taskbar?

what kind of sadistic dipshit clownsow is this

[pixelkeen@mastodon.art]

@mttaggart I'm in the same boat with Ars. It's a damned shame.

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@mttaggart it’s reasonably interesting how it happened, but it doesn’t change that it shouldn’t have happened and should have been caught before it was published
So yeah, the chances of me taking anything from PC world seriously now are not zero but they’re not much above zero

[tux0r@layer8.space]

@pl @mttaggart As if Linux distributions weren’t enshittified enough already. #systemd

[pl@cosocial.ca]

@tux0r what's wrong with systemd? *ducks*

[tux0r@layer8.space]

@pl No, nothing, it's fine. Everything that sucks in Linux is good advertising for alternatives... ...

(Yeah, my eye's always had a funny twitch, why do you ask?)