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by KONAir 1557 days ago
Meh, I can live with it if OS becomes free.
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Linux is already free, so what's the problem?
Incompatibility, battery life, impossible number of combinations to support, need to use terminal, etc
> Incompatibility, battery life

Buy a computer with preinstalled Linux. Everything is fine on my Librem 15. Suspend works 100% of the time.

> impossible number of combinations to support

Support Ubuntu/Debian. It will be enough. Or Flatpak.

> need to use terminal

This is an obsolete information from the 90s.

> > need to use terminal

> This is an obsolete information from the 90s.

Except it's not in too many cases. Bluetooth, WiFi, multi-screen setups often devolve into terminal debugging sessions.

Never happened to me. External monitor, WiFi work fine. Bluetooth untested.
This got me thinking that MS might actually be telling the truth here. Maybe they only plan to enable it for pirated copies.
Pirated versions would be the first to rip that out completely.
Windows is already free