Because that is how modern windows are created to work. But dont worry. You can always use Linux. Just DD the drive and you have a full system backup. New hardware, like in new machine? Dont worry. As long as the hardware can use the old drive, you just swap drives, and keep chugging ahead like nothing has happened.

Updates intrusive? They are for YOUR safety first and foremost. No. Nope. It is not updates you find intrusive as such, but the way MS want it to be executed on your machine.

That is just how software works. If it is a bad Biz move, then discontinuing every OS under the sun would also be a bad biz move.

True.... There are just over five and a half more Linux users than WinXP users.

Are you sure? Did you read the numbers? Or are you in reality talking about 10 year old fact's, from an ever changing marketshare? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-...

I bet the Brit's could use some sweet EU funds for the cleanup. But they chose to pay the bill fully, for them self instead.

That is how I remember my late teenage years (18'ish) to early 20's (23'ish). Os/2 were what MS had it's focus on. Now I dont know about any server segments of the industry, as I tested Win95 releases from february to april 1995 and used Warp 3.0 and Dos as my main OS's. I also fiddeled a bit around with Slackware in private and had Unix education at school. Anyway.... Not even Linux were really on MS's radar back then. However from what I can understand, when reading about why Unix failed in favor of Linux, were mostly down to law suits in the big Unix war. Companies simply were cautious to avoid any legal issues by choosing the wrong between AT&t Unix variants or BSD based variant's. So they more or less went the NT route in the server space.

Don't expect someone who claim that Linux is Unix, to know anything about what GNU stands for. ;-)

Nope.... Linux is NOT Unix. It shares absolutely no kernal code with Unix. Linux is Unix-Like. Exactly as Free-BSD is Unix-like. But being Unix-Like, is in no way the same as Unix. The only exception of BSD not being Unix is MacOS, because that is the only non-AT&T Unix certified out there, that are still in use as a non defunct OS or have not lost it's license.

Yes. I am turning my head to the right and looking at my Macbook. Realising how nice a Unix workstation it is. Unix is not dead. At least 20 percent of all internet users, use MacOS on a daily base and thus using Unix. True it is not AT&T System V, but it is still Unix and actually the only Unix certified BSD based OS still in use today.

There will be cheap and fairly new hardware for Linux in the near future.....

Ukraine is not a member of Nato, hence Nato are not defending Ukraine. And Nato will not defend Poland you say? Poland IS a member of Nato, so by your logic, then Poland will not defend it self? As for the rest of your post..... It makes you eighter sound like a Ruskie from Vodka-Land or a US rightwing.

It is the same stuff, that one uses to whiten the churches here in Denmark. Normally it is stored in a specific pile under ground, as it need to be stored for at least 5 years before it can be used. It is highly corrosive in pure form, and there are many stories about someone getting their skin ripped off on the legs, when stepping and sinking into these storage piles. And I bet that the Romans also knew about the storage part. You burn lime, crush it into powder and store it for 5 years. And if you find a 50 year old storage pile on the church ground, then you will have the absolute best quick-lime imaginable, to paint the churches white with. The longer storage, the longer the church will be white. Basically.... Find the roman quick-lime storage, and you will find the evidence that it was used this way. But in concrete and not to paint with.....

Just buy a Minimig or a real Amiga. If you just want to play games, then get a real Amiga500 and install Gotek as well as an RGBtoHDMI. Yes a standalone PI are hard to source in some parts of the world. But you can find complete RGBtoHDMI kits on eBay. Then you have a real Amiga that are future proof. And for the PSU, you can always do a MeanWell mod.

Raspberry and every other emulation-solution sucks, compared to the real hardware, Minimig and Sidewinder-FPGA solutions. Just like C64 emulation that sucks compared to real hardware. Slowdowns, lagging and mostly wrong sound quality is what you find with emulation.