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Has nobody heard of a vm? Who the fuck runs windows on bare metal thats fucked.
14 billions computers probably
Ud think people would learn after they all blue screened.
If you're talking about crowdstrike... They didn't all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.
Haven't had a blue screen in probably a decade.
What are you referring to here?
probably the CrowdStrike bug. Which is 3rd party software
Just spitballing here, but I think the vast majority of the United States corporate workforce?
I struggle to have any sympathy for them.
Great Scott, you are toxic
you seem to think people have a choice. crazy
Thats my point they do. Vm windows inside it for ur bullshit windows stuff. Well unless u wanna run games wirh invasive anti cheats. I need windows for my cad shit and i just put it in a vm and passed through my gpu.
no, they dont.
most people do not get to go into work and say 'im not using windows, sir' because the business has long since bent over for microsofts services
your comment reminds me of people complaing about people living in war torn countries 'well they can just move!'
nonsense
You can use VMs even more ambitiously. If your wi-fi is not supported by FreeBSD - there's a
wifiboxport, basically it runs a minimal Linux with PCI passthrough.And of course if I need Windows, it won't be bare metal.