Posted on 11/29/2023 6:42:03 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
No, I did not write to disagree, and I respect your learned input which adds value to the thread. But while you did not do it, have sometimes who post on my positive experiences with Windows due to what I see as hype for Linux as if there can be no reasons to like Windows over it, and as balance is needed.
Maybe someday I will have to go with the Linux, but the learning curve and the time and energy. necessary to customize it I to render it to be like Windows is not warranted. Thank God there are alternatives to the default.
As for the Windows app, would that enable me to connect to another PC running W/10 and control it (I have an old one I would like to use as a security camera)?
i pay 9.99 a month for office 365, not interested in a cloud based windows OS
I would be willing to pay the extra $2/month myself if I was sharing a place with even one other person just to be nice to them :-)
hahaha
its just me in my house ;-)
My bad- don’t know the Office 365 (now rebranded as Microsoft 365) monthly rate in the USA where you are. Here is is 7.99 Canadian for one user, $9.99 for up to 4 or 5 other users that the subscriber can add or remove at any time. It’s the rough equivalent of $6 single user or $7.50 a month for you plus up to 4 or 5 in your money.
The only variable for you is whether there’s any value factoring the subscription rate vs. the effort needed to switch for either 365 or Windows. I have neither the right nor the inclination to make a value judgement that will always be yours alone.
There are many uses for linux on the Web alone that are objectively better on internet servers than there are for the typical desktop or laptop user but I have not interest in their decisions either way because life’s to short for me to make other people’s decisions for them.
So I can assume that we’re still good until established otherwise ;-)
Cheers,
Squawk
Open-source operating systems with tons of different distributions.
If that works for you or anyone else, fine. I have no need for that level of security but I’m not the only OS user in the world, nor am I the expert on everything.
Cheers FRiend,
Squawk
[snip] As reported by The Verge, this initiative is part of a broader strategy by Microsoft to move Windows to the cloud, as revealed in an internal “state of the business” presentation from June 2022. Discussed during the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, this strategy includes a focus on building upon “Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device.” [/snip]
Of course, we'll see what the EU thinks of this.
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