I get why someone would purchase these services from Google, I even get why people who drank the Redmond kool-aid get them from Microsoft. I don't understand who would be stupid with to get them from Facebook but also have enough money to pay for them

It doesn't matter when games have to be installed and they require massive updates which also need to be stored somewhere. Games don't play from discs anymore anyway, maybe they stream some video from them.

No.

Citation needed.

Which system doesn't?

My personal mod troll is SO MAD I EXIST.

Rent free all day, all night. They never stop thinking about me.

Then why are you only demonstrating a child's understanding of the situation? A malignant state in decline having massive manufacturing capability is not a positive thing.

I'll never buy one again anyway because they destroyed mine with updates. It was always laggy, but it became basically unusable.

When I went to work for post-acquisition Tivoli (IBM) they issued everyone two PCs, for the most part a pair of PPro 180s, one running Windows 2000 and one with OS/2 so that you could use it to run ACME, a screen scraper GUI for RETAIN. You had to keep Windows so that you could run Notes, but if you just used a 3270 emulator and learned to use the application directly (which was often necessary since ACME updates would lag RETAIN) then you didn't need OS/2 any more. So yes I had to have Windows, but then I also had another machine on which I could run whatever I wanted.

The Windows machine came in handy for Diablo anyway.

Thanks for proving my point. I don't know why you do that so readily, but I do appreciate it. Of course, you won't understand how you've done that, but we can add it to the list.

You appear to have your head in the clouds. Reality is where shit happens. Pretending otherwise is what's tiresome.

The only VM with good Windows accelerated graphics performance is VMware, period. It feels gross to write that, but it's true.

I have one for space cadet pinball...

You failed to read between the lines there.

You think it's not an problem if a hostile superpower with massive manufacturing capacity is going to go through some hard times?

You remind me of Macron being all happy to make Trump sign a treaty at Versailles. How did that go the last time?

The problem is government. OK, nobody takes government IT seriously and for good reason, but they still need to interface with the government constantly. Since every fucking governmental entity in the USA is based on Windows and IBM, we're all forced to be able to interoperate with those. Microsoft has deliberately made their Office suite non-interoperable with false standards that require epic effort to duplicate to a working extent.

Local governments use Windows to interoperate with State govs. State govs use Windows to interoperate with the feds. Microsoft is a defense contractor and part of the panopticon (literally every whistleblower has had something to tell us about how our government uses their control over Microsoft to spy on us, they're a known member of PRISM, etc.) so the feds will "never" stop using Windows, and trying to keep the rest of us using it too.

I put never in quotes because sure it can change... but only way too late.