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That would be great. It would make it a lot easier to convince people to try Ubuntu.

Fair enough. Give me a clean windows without ads, auto installs from the store, telemetry and other data theft, Cortana/copilot/clippy, onedrive, edge, teams, Microsoft account and nag screens and I will gladly pay 1€ per month. Otherwise, Linux it is.

Sign me up! I need yet another monthly subscription!

I’m somewhat amused by the fact that lots of people are suggesting Linux as an alternative but can’t agree on which flavor to use as the alternative.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Linux is awesome, but this is the problem. You’re never going to get the saturation necessary to bring average consumers over in significant numbers until they have a clear choice.

Wondering how will F2P games with anti-cheat react to the news. Knowing that much of their player base may jump ship to Linux to avoid the subscription fees, will they relent and start using less invasive anti-cheat programs, or will they try to adapt specific versions of Wine / Proton to work in rooted mode?

already on linux. The only reason i ever load windows is my capture card doesn’t work with linux yet (so like 2 times a month) this is how windows dies

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Fuck that noise

IF there is going the be a subscription based windows version, it’s most likely going the be the cloud version of Windows 11

I doubt that Windows 12 itself will require a subscription. There will probably be a subscription for all the AI trash Micro$oft has been implementing into the OS.

Microsoft would be as stupid as your typical League of Legends player for going down that route. Doing this would be an own-goal and would give Linux market share instantly.

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Sometimes moneygrubbing shareholders do us a favor by steering companies into implementing terrible policies. If Reddit wouldn’t have been so greedy with it’s treatment of third-party app developers most of use wouldn’t be on Lemmy right now. If Microsoft forces Windows users to pay a subscription I think it sends more people away from closed-source garbage and into the arms of the open source community. I’ve enjoyed watching Reddit implode, hopefully I get to watch a similar show from our friends at Microsoft.

I have been using computers since before there was an internet. I have used DOS and now Windows 10. Is there a good place to learn about Linux with a GUI and which one I should purchase? I’m so tired of M$.

Edit: I am primarily a PC gamer that uses Steam and this is what has kept me from using another OS in the past.