Never mind Windows 365, I’ve yet to move on to Windows 11. Tried a few times and never liked it.
This seems like a really bad idea. Are there any examples of this that Lemmians are familiar with? Certainly can’t play games on it. Right?
Could kill off desktop PCs
Linux has entered the chat.
Maybe it’ll finally be the year of the Linux desktop.
We have Valve’s Proton. The Prophet Gabe has prophesized the Evils of M$ and its anti-Consumerist Bill Gates (Satan-Borg). In His wisdom, Gabe has prepared for us our salvation. Praise Valve!
Linux PC is the next move :)
As a Linux user, I welcome this change as it makes Microsoft more honest about their Windows EULA. It is not YOUR OS, it is theirs. You’re renting it.
And, whatever system you use, the installers need to have admin rights to operate. I rather give admin rights to people I trust on my servers and clients. I don’t trust Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe etc and especially any antivirus makers.
Laughs in GNU+Linux
all the Alpine-Linux Users crying
Wondering how Steam OS serves as a desktop replacement.
More likely the end of desktop Windows. But I wouldn’t take my bet on it as Windows users often tend to accept everything Microsoft does, sooner or later.
People leaving Windows en masse needs three things:
- Continued enshitification, which will likely continue.
- More apps (games, productivity, etc.) having native support for Linux, or at least a viable alternative.
- Linux devs to prioritize user friendliness over gatekeeping/“just use macros” mentality.
I’m heavily thinking on moving to Linux in the future, likely when I’ll need to reinstall my OS. Then I’ll only keep around Windows for testing purposes.
EDIT: I wrote two instead of three
I can only imagine how thin the margins will be on laptops that are physically incapable of running their own operating system and basically don’t qualify as general-purpose computers. The computer itself will be streamed to you over the internet and you’ll just have an IPL that handles your keyboard and mouse, the display, the network connection and the encrypted memory buffer you use to send files to your cloud PC or receive them onto a Microsoft-authorised USB device for external transfer.
Will also be so much fun in 5-10 years when only enterprise customers are allowed the luxury of being sold a local version of Windows, so your whole laptop freezes up every time your connection is interrupted and trying to turn it on without an internet connection just takes you to a 404 page baked into the bootstrap ROM.
Enterprise already runs remote virtualized desktop instances and while it works it’s a useable experience, but when there’s any problem it’s a nightmare scenario.
At that point it’s someone else’s PC in a server somewhere else. Unless it’s to make networks in business or school, I don’t really see it being used much outside of that. Especially when you could just set up your own cloud network locally.
I had a friend, who runs a company hosting various OSs designed for this use case. He was singing their praises, till I pointed out a flaw. I work in places with less than optimal internet access. Even the mobile phone network often collapses. Suddenly, my laptop being independently capable is very important.
I’ve moved away from windows a lot however. I mostly boot Ubuntu, with windows available if I need it. Most of the games I play also work fine under Linux now. It can be 6 months or more between windows boots.
I think it’s a problem for consumers, especially as long as traditional PCs and laptops remain ubiquitous. I could see this changing over time as the natural way of things. There are all kinds of examples of people giving up a superior experience for the sake of cost or convenience. :-/
I’ve moved completely to Arch and I don’t think I’m going back. It supports every game I’ve wanted to play up until now except Fall Guys, worst case I’ll set up a small Windows partition or VM for the couple of exceptions that I still want to play
The good old rumor mill at it again.
I would move to Linux if this ever occurred, and I hate Linux.
