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People around here are delusional a lot of times, but to say that windows has too much of a monopoly to lose market, is too much of an exaggeration. Microsoft has been taking unpopular decisions, newer windows versions have been facing more and more resistance, macos has been growing and taking a share of the market, some governments and smaller businesses have been trying linux as a way to cut expenses, linux usability have been improving a lot, android devices have been taking more steps into taking functionalities from desktop systems and improving usability with keyboard and mouse, a lot of computers that do simple processing have been replaced by sbcs, like raspberry pis, etc.

Windows isn't too big to fail, and it's not impossible that we're close to see it starting to fall. Now, on what os would become the bigger player, that's another story.

Fun fact: My elderly mother uses linux, and without my help. Also, she never used the terminal.

My guess is that google has been losing the public perception of an innovative company, and started to be felt as a big stable and slow moving one instead, and they're trying so desperately to take back the previous public perception. They're seeing the ai hype and the investment microsoft is doing on it. They probably also fear that bing might break their monopoly, and want to fully integrate some ai in their product, to prevent the competition from arising and passing the image of an innovative company.

It makes sense, because back then, things would get released in here much later than the global releases. I found no information on the local release date of windows xp, to know for sure, though.

I have always been the one who goes against the trends, and it looks like I still am. Strategy is one of the very few genres that I like, and if the game has no strategic element to it, I usually don't enjoy it.

But... I don't like overwhelming UIs and elements. I like simplicity, few elements and not many options, but a deep strategy.

That's interesting, because here in brazil, people loved windows xp on release. The general sentiment was that windows 95, 98 and me were too buggy and unstable, while xp gave a better experience.

A dolphin with a hat? Its very close to the concept of the brazilian amazon river dolphin myth.

Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility

Was there any recent relevant developments in this area?

It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that

I remember a colleague who had a laptop with a cpu that supported virtualization, but it wasn't enabled, and there was no option in the uefi to enable it, so he couldn't run virtualbox. Perhaps libreboot could help getting rid of such arbitrary limitations?

Sorry for the mess, and thank you for taking your time to answer me

That's exactly what happens. I get it now

It's on main fedora, and yes, I go through grub need to input the encryption password twice. I can record it, if it makes things more clear. I'm having a weird difficulty explaining this.

I probably didn't explain it very well, sorry.

When I update using the gnome software manager, it only downloads the packages and wait for a reboot to install them. When I click the option to reboot ans install, it boots to a software update screen, and when it finishes, it reboots again to the system.

I get it, but I don't understand why fedora has to reboot 2 times when I update using the gui. What would be the problem with updating before shutting down, and rebooting only once? Fedora reboots, updates, then reboots again.

For me, it was gradual. I used windows and tbe same proprietary software as everyone else, but then I stumbled upon the concept of open source. I was a kid, and this felt like something amazing, so I started downloading all foss software I could. I was amazed by how lightweight everything was. My pc was old, my internet was slow, and and my storage space was low, but foss software made my machine feel much better. When I discovered Linux (before that, I didn't know the OS was a software like all others, and that it could be replaced too), I was already using everything foss, and the transition was so smooth.

I remember talos principle 2 not allowing to play on integrated gpus.

I have given it a try a few times, to see if it makes sense to search on tiktok. I tried things like "[generic topic I'd like to know more about]", "history of [topic]", "[topic] lecture/course", "how to replace screen of [phone model]", "how to fix [device model]", "how to make [recipe]", [product] review, [software] tutorial, and a few others, both in english and in my mother language, and in all cases, the results were poor, barely related to my search or nonexistent.

It makes me wonder if: 1- people don't actually search on tiktok as much as people make it look like 2 - there's some different way to write the search terms that I'm unaware of, or perhaps, the results would be different if I was logged in 3 - people are simply getting poor results and that's it 4 - my search interests differ too much from what people search on tiktok

This is one thing I would love to actually see some data about, because I have never seen people not using search engines, no matter the age, but I see a lot of people on the internet claiming that younger people don't use search engines anymore.

There's one active brand still making e-ink phones, both single and doubled screen. It's HiSense. The devices look pretty nice.

There's a brand called HiSense doing exactly that. Look for the A6L model.