I truly believe once MS has tamed Chromium, they will go for ChromiumOS next and you will get the Windows version of a Chromebook "Windows Lite". They just need to get you into the cloud and subscribed to their software, they don't care how they do it.j2mcgreg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:36 pm I saw something to-day while researching new laptops that could send even more folks over to Linux. Microsoft has launched WINDOWS 10 S which is identical to regular Win 10 except for one very large gotcha: a user can only install software that has been downloaded from the official windows store.
see here for the details:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... comparison
I can see a lot of people being very disgruntled when they discover that their new laptop / desktop, by design, is not nearly as capable as their old one.
The Hordes are coming ...
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Okay! Now I see that again, I have to ask... where can one get one?
Did a search, when you posted, but came up blank...
Btw. thread ttitle indicates newcombers aren't really welcome... one or two maybe, but hundreds are a horde...
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Looks dead to me...
https://web.archive.org/web/20181116044 ... unter.net/
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Re Linux Counter, the database is no longer maintained and is not available.
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Probably due to an integer overflow.
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The person who took over the website left a note as to why they discontinued on the landing page.
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Pax vobiscum,
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My (Linux Counter) guess at the number of Linux users: 85,780,478 (Jun 2018 ??)