Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
References to subscription 'edition,' 'type,' and 'status' found in a test build of Windows.
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."
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I know there's always someone evangelizing Linux when you mention Windows anything, but when Microsoft requires a subscription for Windows is the day I will actually move to Linux.
Why not now?
Not the commenter but the answer is easy - right now, it's not costing me anything to run Windows on my PC, and installing Linux takes research, time, and attention that I don't feel like investing in my home PC at the moment. Probably the next PC I build (whenever my 10 year old Dell i7 is too damn slow, only now starting to get laggy) will run Linux. Previously I only installed linux on laptops I retired from active use, just for shits and giggles. Never once had a linux powerhouse, but now that linux gaming is a reality, I'm very interested in getting away from the advertising platform that Windows has become.
We're running a 6 year old selfbuilt gaming rig on Garuda Linux ... Runs like a charm. Husband is playing Warthunder which uses Anti-Cheat - so far everything runs out of the box.
Not OP, but Linux isn't much good for professional creative work. Would love to try it out, but without a functioning Adobe suite it's not gonna happen.
In my opinion, Inkscape is a great competitor to Adobe Illustrator. The problem comes in with the fact that we don't have a viable image manipulation software. Gimp just aint it.
Article: "We don't know how, but Windows is taking away a pint of blood from the user every time the OS is booted up".
Some guy at the edge of fainting: "I swear, I am this close to switching away".
Windows would always give you a homeopathic dose of value to being kept from switching out.
I have friends that no longer use Facebook to chat, but still doomscroll their timeline anyway, because once per twenty ads there is one post that barely interest them. They won't switch, they won't even try other media, they just keep telling themselfs about those two times per year they got something useful out of it.