"You know, getting good skills and training so you don't have to start at the lowest possible level and have the capacity to move up quickly"

This isn't really a thing anymore. College grads already have to do entry level work until they learn actual industry specific knowledge.

I've never met a more aptly named slashdot poster in all my life.

It is widely known that OEM costs are $30-40 per license. Making the increase they are talking about here... $3-4.

That's a pretty lazy way of excusing the inability of Linux to gain market share. Apple did, despite all difficulties and shortcomings.

The problem is that Linux brings very little to the table to make anything *better* for the average consumer.

The apocalypse isn't job replacement, it's job training. ALL of the entry level jobs in most industries are going to be replaced by AI, and there will be no jobs available to train up the next set of tier 2 and 3 employees. The apprenticeship model that most of the world relies on is going to collapse. It will take a decade to realize the losses and by then it will be too late to train replacements.

Read the article next time.

I guess Linux users have not considered that their inability to turn a significant population towards Linux in 40 years might just be because they don't want to use it because it doesn't work very well for most people.

OEM cost of Windows 11 Home is $30-$40 depending on their specific case.

So the entire PC cost will increase by $3-$4? Who really cares. You're just splitting hairs.

No, YOU don't know. LOL

Why are you even here?

If it were as functional and viable as Linux users want to pretend it is, then there would be a market for cheap computers that come with it preinstalled.

You'll just have to wonder why there isn't.

No denying that they "could" do what they do in Linux with some effort, but they have continually choosen "not to" for almost 40 years.

Linux doesn't bring anything meaningful to the table to make people switch, just more headaches that they can't easily diagnose.

Not out of the box. Not without jumping through several hoops of driver and other wrapper support.

Which is why consumers, over ~40 years, have never migratred towards Linux ever.

Here you are trying to convince me, like I care. The average consumer doesn't give a shit about any of that.

Hard to miss the point this bad, but you did it!

"Maybe the consumers will want to CHOOSE to have slower internet. If we aren't legally obligated to ask, we'll just assume that because fuck you"

Changing the rules to accomodate crap ISP's selling 20MBit upstream is not being "technologically neutral".

Just clown car Republicans doing clown Republican things.

Anyone who actually believes AI will cause people to work less hours is a complete fuckin moron.

The literal developers of AI should know better.