Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 15 Jan 2025 17:02:50 GMT Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <1VcgP.54962$XfF8.39289@fx04.iad> <6h1bojt7kdp4d5euq0f78rtuvqpg7edc3e@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oeci3T6iGXigMS5D6GGTMgPd5PW94HXbGLHchZgl+Z3tDbcAVG Cancel-Lock: sha1:WYBCNiQuskTuqY9ry/lwXe7eCHA= sha256:S+zewVjLZWahlTXGuI/WzYxSI9bBjiLtnxaXol+eJ4E= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Hmm2; c45f6052; Linux-6.12.9) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:181375 comp.os.linux.advocacy:684084 On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:33:48 -0500, -hh wrote in : > On 1/15/25 10:46 AM, Joel wrote: >> Chris wrote: >> >>>> Linux is the only option worth pursuing. macOS is weird and >>>> expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief. >>> >>> macOS is free. Just needs a $600 mac to run it on. >> >> Windows Home preinstalled on volume-produced gear is virtually free, >> self-installed Linux completely free, but yes that "$600" you cite >> isn't cheap for the device it buys. That OS upgrades are free is just >> to incentivize buying/using an Apple device. >> >> > Where said "isn't cheap" $600 is ~half what Joel's already spent... > > ...or for when the Lady protests too much, after deducting off his > alleged $200 mistake of a second Windows OS license, roughly 50% less > ($600 vs ($1150 - $200 = $950). Having played the "buy a mac mini to get MacOS" game, I can tell you that I was very disappointed. The Mac Studio we have now is a few steps up, but it's not worth what we paid for it. It's clunky, and the security policies on it are one-offs. It's a UNIX system, but they've bolted on extras that are downright unfriendly. Meanwhile Mrs. vallor's new workstation is still waiting in the wings; turns out, she expanded the scope of "make a space on her desk" into "re-organize her office". ;) fu2: cola -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G "Linux is obsolete" -Andrew Tanenbaum