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Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
by jklinger410 8y ago
Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't.
Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads?
Hmmmmm
- zitterbewegung 8y agoYou don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
- azinman2 8y agoYou do implicitly with your purchase of Apple hardware.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoYou do, but it's included in the hardware price.
- tobyhinloopen 8y agoPlease let me know how I can get macOS for free :) Edit: You also don't get free updates if you don't have an Apple machine. Still not free.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoGet Linux for free, still don't get ads.
- tobyhinloopen 8y agoOh shit I can't use (any application) on Linux, but there is (mediocre alternative) instead!
- jimijazz 8y agoWhich aplications would you like to see in Linux?
- craftyguy 8y agoI wouldn't expect a thoughtful reply, tobyhinloopen seems to be trolling all over the comments here.
- tobyhinloopen 8y agoAll over? I placed like 2-3 comments that can be considered “trolling”
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI'd like to see a way of installing applications that isn't needlessly restrictive. Something like AppImage, only actually used.
- saurik 8y agoPretty much everything made by Adobe and Microsoft (but I can sort of live without the ones from Microsoft). Honestly, if Adobe made a Linux distribution as part of Creative Suite (which I would think wouldn't even be hard for them to port to Linux) I bet they could make a strong running taking over the desktop operating system market.
- pooppaint 8y agoChief Architect. Cubase. Photoshop, InDesign. Games that don’t work in Wine (eg Fortnite) Epic, Allscripts, Cerner frontends.
- tobyhinloopen 8y agoPay for MacOS: Don't forget your DONGLES
- maxxxxx 8y agoI am sure that providers with paid products like Netflix or HBO are watching closely. Until now the deal was that the customer pays to get rid of ads but maybe they can make the customer pay and still show ads?
- lintroller 8y agoI don't think that Microsoft serving ads within their native mail application has strong ramifications for Netflix or HBO. They are different market segments with different expectations.
- jklinger410 8y agoThe pressure to serve ads in everything that has eyeballs on it is universal.
- kxrm 8y agoYea, that's the cable revenue model, it's not working out so well for them right now. I would be very careful about double dipping.
- wbond 8y agoI’m fairly sure Hulu has done this from the beginning, right? I never understood the allure of paying for Hulu but still seeing ads. I just went to check and apparently you can pay extra to get rid of ads. Recently Amazon has been playing ads at the beginning of shows that are offered for free via Prime. I feel like I even saw them when I had bought a season of a show, but it is now offered for free via Prime. So far it seems like buying shows and movies through Apple is ad-free.
- excalibur 8y agoIf you use Windows' Mail client with Gmail, do you get served both Microsoft AND Google ads?
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- andrepd 8y agoMy, I wish there was an OS that respected my freedoms unlike all of those... Hmm.
- jklinger410 8y agoTime is money. Learning/setting up/operating around Linux is expensive.
- andrepd 8y ago>Learning In practical terms, any software engineer knows how to work in a POSIX environment, so no issue here. >setting up If you mean "installing Linux", then any mainstream distro (e.g. Linux Mint) is ready to go out of the box. If you mean "configuring things up to your liking" then it is no more time-consuming than any other setup. >operating Don't know what you mean by this, but a POSIX environment is probably the most efficient/least painful way to do software development.