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Sometimes I laugh at arguments like this, sometimes I get pissed of. You are seriously disconnected from reality if you think this will change anything except a

Sometimes I laugh at arguments like this, sometimes I get pissed of. You are seriously disconnected from reality if you think this will change anything except all laptops having a front webcam. I haven't seen one without it ever anyways

hans-moleman 5y ago
This website is an echo chamber many times more niche than other social websites. It’s mainly tech nerds with very similar beliefs and backgrounds. Opinons here, as with most websites, should be taken with a grain of salt.
squarefoot 5y ago
There are some realities I may have been connected in the past, in which a laptop with a camera cannot enter if it is yours, and won't have a camera at all if it's from the employer. The point however was Microsoft imposing unnecessary hardware requirements, and my comment stands since from a Linux (BSD, whatever) point of view, lots of Windows users ditching their perfectly good few years old PC means a huge load of good hardware to be taken almost for free since our demand would never match the huge offer. Regarding messing with hardware requirements, I seem to recall Microsoft did a similar thing when they dictated that netbooks up to a certain size could not have more than this CPU and that amount of RAM to be eligible for receiving discounted OEM XP copies; it was called ULCPC or something like that. In that case they didn't set the minimum bar, but the maximum one. Which of course also produced tons of garbage since netbooks too slow or non upgradeable over 1 Gig RAM became hard to use with Linux too.
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  Your last paragraph goes against your original thesis. Whatever Microsoft did. It didn’t impact much at all. There was no migration. Netbooks aren’t even a thing any more outside Chromebooks. The point doesn’t stand since there won’t be some exodus of users switching to Linux. None of my friends or likey acquaintances who aren’t programmers or in related fields including a handful who sometimes or frequently keep up with general tech/gadget news, can tell you a Linux distro name. They likely can’t tell you what a distro is. I’m sure if I was to say Ubuntu they would say yes they have heard of it of are a bit familiar, but that’s the extent of it.

hans-moleman 5y ago

This website is an echo chamber many times more niche than other social websites. It’s mainly tech nerds with very similar beliefs and backgrounds. Opinons here, as with most websites, should be taken with a grain of salt.

squarefoot 5y ago

There are some realities I may have been connected in the past, in which a laptop with a camera cannot enter if it is yours, and won't have a camera at all if it's from the employer. The point however was Microsoft imposing unnecessary hardware requirements, and my comment stands since from a Linux (BSD, whatever) point of view, lots of Windows users ditching their perfectly good few years old PC means a huge load of good hardware to be taken almost for free since our demand would never match the huge offer. Regarding messing with hardware requirements, I seem to recall Microsoft did a similar thing when they dictated that netbooks up to a certain size could not have more than this CPU and that amount of RAM to be eligible for receiving discounted OEM XP copies; it was called ULCPC or something like that. In that case they didn't set the minimum bar, but the maximum one. Which of course also produced tons of garbage since netbooks too slow or non upgradeable over 1 Gig RAM became hard to use with Linux too.

skinnymuch 5y ago
Your last paragraph goes against your original thesis. Whatever Microsoft did. It didn’t impact much at all. There was no migration. Netbooks aren’t even a thing any more outside Chromebooks. The point doesn’t stand since there won’t be some exodus of users switching to Linux. None of my friends or likey acquaintances who aren’t programmers or in related fields including a handful who sometimes or frequently keep up with general tech/gadget news, can tell you a Linux distro name. They likely can’t tell you what a distro is. I’m sure if I was to say Ubuntu they would say yes they have heard of it of are a bit familiar, but that’s the extent of it.