#hashtag #fuckdrake

I feel like in this entire discussion, people almost always forget Windows actually costs money, and quite a lot of it.

Even if Linux-based OSes weren't superior in every possible way... they cost nothing versus Windows 11's $139 USD price tag.

Linux doesn't even need to beat Windows at everything to win. And yet it still does.

Please do reboot your linux, that's needed to upgrade your kernel.

Are there not enough Linux meme communities?

The biggest difference with updates isn't even being forced vs "when I say so," even though it does matter.

The biggest difference for me is the whole "be good at the thing you were made to do" aspect of Linux and FOSS. I never have any hesitation to update my computer, because updates are fast and unobtrusive. At work I will run an update check in a terminal in the middle of a Teams meeting while I also have code building in the background using 100% CPU. No issues.

Both vibecoded 😍

I was a Linux admin on a team of fourteen. A Windows Server admin bragged at his server had gone a full two months without a reboot.

In fact, it was 65 days. The other Windows admins congratulated him. He came over to tell me the news, which I already overheard and sshed in to check my uptime.

"821 days uptime." He got disappointed. That's cool, because he was a jerk for many reasons.

But deep inside, I realized I needed to stay late after the call center closed, as it is a good idea to apply kernal patches to your firewall.

I'm just excited that Windows 10 is no longer supported so it will stop updating without my permission.

This is all very cute, but those Windows items don't apply to me.

• I've never paid for Windows, not even preinstalled on a machine.
• It's set so updates are not forced, but I update anyway because it hasn't caused me an issue since... ? I can't remember. A decade or more?
• Rooted out the telemetry and/or blocked it. I accomplished this faster than setting up any given Linux desktop I've used.
• This Windows install has ridden the same SSD across 3 or 4 machines for 8 years or more. Not sure I've ever had a BSOD on this install, and you won't either if your hardware isn't soft damaged.

Windows sucks, but I'm not sure anyone has actually paid for it since before 10.

It's now black screen of death, btw

Are their windows users who pay for the licenses? I never did.

I got my Windows 10 license from our good buddies at MASSGRAVE.

Also, now you get to screen of death.