It’s a little sad, yet another Linux holdout has fallen to the Microsoft world:
In some sense it’s probably a good thing – much as I like Linux, the world is run on Microsoft and getting used to its interface is probably more useful to children than Linux. On the other hand, a lot of servers run Linux and a Linux laptop would offer a lot more options to learn how to maintain these systems and possibly program. I could theoretically see “gcc” installed on a “100 Dollar Laptop”, but Visual Studio seems out.
It’s a bit sad that Microsoft can’t leave at least one market alone, and it’s hard to believe this isn’t “monopolistic” in some sense. Anyway, here’s another related post:
I realize it’s the way of things, but it does seem to close a lot of doors.
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