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Surely running old Windows that you have to pirate and block from updating is less user friendly than a simple Ubuntu setup. I get that many people don't even t

Surely running old Windows that you have to pirate and block from updating is less user friendly than a simple Ubuntu setup. I get that many people don't even think it's an option, but if I were looking for a market for more desktop linux users, people suffering through windows piracy would be one of the top.

cynix 9y ago
Most Chinese software are only available for Windows.
themodelplumber 9y ago
Cross compatibility, binary drag and drop, games, Chinese language tools, browsers required by banks. Same old Asian Windows needs
- jakewins 9y ago
  Pure curiosity: What is "binary" drag and drop?
  - themodelplumber 9y ago
    Sorry, I just mean that binary compatibility from one Windows system to another is not a big problem. Here's a USB full of software, drag the files over to your system, done.
- emiliobumachar 9y ago
  Interesting. How come it's worse than in the west?
xster 9y ago
Sensible option for someone in the west. Wouldn't make sense at all for the ecosystem of digital needs one would want to fulfill in China. Also, you're thinking of 'pirating' as equating going to the pirate bay, digging through the slew of junk in there, getting a whole bunch of complicated key gen and activation blockers or what not and ending up with a crippled system. Pirated Windows in China is very much a commercially finished product fully packaged as a consumer friendly product that's probably easier to install than vanilla licensed Windows.
21 9y ago
You can update pirated Windows, from XP to 10. It just has to be pirated with a "supported pirate kit" for a lack of a better title. As in supported by the hacker community which created it.
derefr 9y ago
You don't have to block Windows XP from updating; it just doesn't, any more. (When I tried to get a copy set up recently in a VM to do some ReactOS cross-compatibility debugging, it was very hard to get it to even talk to the Microsoft Update service—the website version of Windows Update is seemingly just gone now, and yet XP insists on using the website to bootstrap-update the native Microsoft Update agent. You have to download and install the updated agent .msi manually.)
Tsagadai 9y ago
Some banks still require activeX plugins. When you are paid into a bank and you only have an online account (not that rare) then you have to suck it up and use really, really insecure access methods (or change banks which isn't always an option for everyone).
spacehunt 9y ago
We have tried desktop Linux there over 10 years ago, both commercial and open source. Remember Red Flag? They were one of the many competitors. Turned out nobody wanted Linux on the desktop.

cynix 9y ago

Most Chinese software are only available for Windows.

themodelplumber 9y ago

Cross compatibility, binary drag and drop, games, Chinese language tools, browsers required by banks. Same old Asian Windows needs

jakewins 9y ago
Pure curiosity: What is "binary" drag and drop?
- themodelplumber 9y ago
  Sorry, I just mean that binary compatibility from one Windows system to another is not a big problem. Here's a USB full of software, drag the files over to your system, done.
emiliobumachar 9y ago
Interesting. How come it's worse than in the west?

xster 9y ago

Sensible option for someone in the west. Wouldn't make sense at all for the ecosystem of digital needs one would want to fulfill in China. Also, you're thinking of 'pirating' as equating going to the pirate bay, digging through the slew of junk in there, getting a whole bunch of complicated key gen and activation blockers or what not and ending up with a crippled system. Pirated Windows in China is very much a commercially finished product fully packaged as a consumer friendly product that's probably easier to install than vanilla licensed Windows.

21 9y ago

You can update pirated Windows, from XP to 10. It just has to be pirated with a "supported pirate kit" for a lack of a better title. As in supported by the hacker community which created it.

derefr 9y ago

You don't have to block Windows XP from updating; it just doesn't, any more. (When I tried to get a copy set up recently in a VM to do some ReactOS cross-compatibility debugging, it was very hard to get it to even talk to the Microsoft Update service—the website version of Windows Update is seemingly just gone now, and yet XP insists on using the website to bootstrap-update the native Microsoft Update agent. You have to download and install the updated agent .msi manually.)

Tsagadai 9y ago

Some banks still require activeX plugins. When you are paid into a bank and you only have an online account (not that rare) then you have to suck it up and use really, really insecure access methods (or change banks which isn't always an option for everyone).

spacehunt 9y ago

We have tried desktop Linux there over 10 years ago, both commercial and open source. Remember Red Flag? They were one of the many competitors. Turned out nobody wanted Linux on the desktop.