• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t necessarily agree with this characterisation. This is how to install linux rather than “we recommend linux over windows”?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, title is kinda clickbaity. It doesn’t mention that Microsoft recommends Linux at any point. But a post saying that Microsoft has an installation guide for Linux would get less traffic I guess.

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        1 year ago

        In fact, it recommends installing Linux on top of Windows via WSL or a virtual machine. It explicitly recommends not installing Linux on bare metal because of hardware compatibility.

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          Also because that makes it harder for them to spy :/

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        1 year ago

        Especially because this exact article with a non clickbait title has gone around two-three weeks ago

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      This is clear to me, also that MS like Google is very involved in the world of OpenSource (GitHub is from MS). But it should also be added that large corporations also use many APIs and scripts in many FOSS products that allow them to continue profiling the user. if these “additions” are not removed from the product to be used. MS is also clear that, at least in the EU, more and more computer stores sell PCs only with FreeDOS, to leave the OS to the user’s decision, with this their business is being reduced anyway and so is their influence, which in the EU it is minimal. The difference between MS USA tracking and MS EU is abysmal.

      MS EU

      MS USA