Re: What is REALLY needed...
Yes, we are. But Microsoft give us money for NOT porting them over so... sucks to be you.
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Home users don't use Illustrator, Photoshop, Xcode or Autocad or one of those hundred Windows only programs.
The article and that site are all about home users who will believe the crap MS and the 'security experts' and newspapers will spew and trash perfectly good computers because 'you will own nothing and be happy about it'.
It's about educating the common people, not the people in the know.
Yes, I do use Linux, why do you ask? Yes, I dual boot/use a Windows VM for digital signing PDFs with a hardware token. Yes, my wife's (MD) practice uses Windows as the special software imposed by the Ministry of Health is Windows only.
Thank you for the explanation.
What trigger me was I clicked on the VirusTotal community page to see what members had said about this IP address and one foreign language community member claimed the IP address belonged to “Ruska Policia” which translated to Russian Police, hence the NCIS thingie.
Looking again at the post I've replied to, I think I was just feeding some AI bot.
But reality is that FOSS is subject the interest, preference and availability of the developer(s). If they want a programme to work or look a certain way, then that's how it's going to be, no matter if it makes no sense to users, or how many polite request they get from users to vary that. Ditto if something isn't working properly ( or isn't implemented in the latest version because the devs aren't interested in changing the code to make it remain compatible in some way)
And that's different from Microsoft et all because...?
The expected lifespan of a working computer is until you can't get spare parts for it.
The software, on the other hand, is at the mercy of the creator. He either makes a good, working program or he works for Microsoft and all the rest (forced upgrades for the sake of upgrading, artificial limits on hardware and so on).
Thank $deity for Linus and the people who like to write software and donate their work to the public.