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What a whiner! Maybe it's different for laptops, but for desktops, you can still go almost anywhere and have a custom-built system made without any Windows install at all! Huge hard drive, flaming fast GPU, RAM up tha wazoo, studio-grade sound card and as many cores as Intel or AMD can cram onto a chip these days. Hell, if you want a Linux laptop, buy a Sputnik from Dell!


It is imperative to fight for principles when it first occurs not when your own ass is in the fire.

We lost the apple devices as general purpose, android is not much better and the walled gardens are encroaching the PC.


What if, in the interests of appeasing Microsoft, only Windows 8 certified Secure Boot motherboards are made by the big manufacturers?

What if the EFI is so locked down, the hardware so Windows-specific, you can't make Linux work on it?

That's the future people are trying to avoid.




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