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Lemmy users try not to be insufferable when Windows is mentioned (Challenge) (Impossible)
The currently largest single source of ewaste in the world should be criticized at every turn.
Every work from home person and every corporate end point will be upgrading; simply due to legal liability for the corporations. That alone is hundreds of millions of pcs and laptops getting thrown out (because anyone in IT knows no corpo is going to pay the extra hours to recycle properly).
Average users with no liability? Plenty will stay on win 10 until their use case no longer works, i.e. when steam dropped win vista compatibility, but plenty will be scared enough to upgrade.
The weird part will be seeing who sidegrades to a tablet in the corporate environment. Many android tablets can do everything needed for office work, and don't have the same security cross section. Most app front ends are electron anyway these days so its not like x86 is needed.
I mean, this is about privacy, is it not? It's pretty well-known by now that Windows mines your data.
It is clearly mentioned that
It's either private or it's Windows.