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I don't disagree, but it feels a bit different when its something you supposedly own. Frankly, some of the Facebook posts are a bit on the fringe side, but we'
by protomyth 10y ago
I don't disagree, but it feels a bit different when its something you supposedly own. Frankly, some of the Facebook posts are a bit on the fringe side, but we're talking about PCs here so they're instruments of the Twilight Zone to begin with.
I keep thinking some Linux / BSD group would get it together and go for this still big market, but they are worse at marketing than Microsoft. I had such high hopes for ARM-based PCs.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoYou mean Google Chromebook (Linux) or Apple Mac (BSD)?
- protomyth 10y agoWell, I did have some hope of Chromebook's but they are phone-home only machines (We had a discussion in another thread on them and my trying to buy them institutionally and all the fail). Is there even an ARM Chromebook still sold? Apple doesn't seem too interested in taking over the PC market or even releasing new PCs.
- sverige 10y agoThe game was lost when UEFI came out with certs required. Or maybe earlier, when Windows began phoning home.
- mwcampbell 10y ago> I had such high hopes for ARM-based PCs. If you haven't given up entirely on ARM Linux-based desktops and laptops, you might want to check out this project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
- rbanffy 10y agoYou own the physical media. You are free to try to install it on your computer (and, if you have a PS/2 meyboard/mouse, that can even work) > some Linux / BSD group would get it together and go for this still big market I don't think they'd be interested in writing Windows drivers and the NDAs they'd need to sign would probably end their careers in open-source. What you can do is to install a thin supported OS that can host VMs and install Windows 7 on one. Oracle's VirtualBox even has some support for GPUs.