References to subscription 'edition,' 'type,' and 'status' found in a test build of Windows.

[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      9 months ago

      Humans are creatures of habit. The average user won’t switch until the pain of using what they know outweighs the pain of learning something new + the fear of something new.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      It’d certainly convince me. I run windows 11 since my laptop came with it but if I had to pay for my OS I’d run to Linux. The existence of Proton makes it much easier to switch now as well.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Most of my tech literate (yes, literate, not illiterate) friends were actually supportive of this.

      So imagine what tech illiterates will be like.

      Most people will just accept it as a cost of computing, I fear.

    • Fixbeat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I could probably move to Linux now but I have a couple windows applications that connect to audio hardware for configuration. I wonder if such applications would work with Wine…

      • Talaraine@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’m in the same boat and have been waffling about it for some time. At least we kind of have a target for when our research needs to be done.

    • job3rg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      For personal use maybe. Im 100% my job (and possibly most workplaces) will just eat the subscription cost to stick with what they know.

    • ofcourse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Switching to a Linux can be overwhelming. A few distros have made great strides to make most of the OS work right after installing it. But even if there’s only 1% issues due to hardware, drivers, gaming, etc., troubleshooting those issues would often require using terminal and are not accessible to everyone. There’s no customer support to reach out to, and online forums can be difficult to navigate for someone not familiar with coding.

      • Talaraine@kbin.social
        21·
        9 months ago

        It ‘can’ be overwhelming, yes. I’ve never found, however, so MANY online guides that literally tell you step by step what to enter in the terminal window to succeed. There’s always a learning curve, it’s just about whether or not you want to pay Windows every month to avoid figuring this out. This is why I mentioned Mint specifically, btw. It’s the most user friendly.