I’m even more pleased that I moved to Debian Linux after reading this!
I did “upgrade” one laptop to W11, just in case, but have found no use for it.
I think the big impact is in the corporate arena where Windows has tied up the entire market through deployment of MS Word, PowerPoint etc. They were truly enabling…. but they became a tender trap.
While you can, once turning on your brand new computer, bypass the bios and boot from a thumb drive with a free software installer. Free being linux or one of the _BSDs. (Linux has hardware support and software out the wazoo.)
You need to do a bit of research to find the proper keypress to bypass the bios FIRST.
That's step one.
Unfortunately there will be more hurdles. Many steaming services refuse to serve content to a free operating system. This is pure horseshit as a browser on macOS gets the stream that same browser on a free operating system will not. Working around this on a free operating system is possible. On the bright side, the internet shopping mall is happy to take your business so long as you have a proper payment method. You can even arrange for the streaming services that after payment, will refuse to serve you. Which of course should be illegal!
Of course, the information side of the internet is fully available on a free operating system. And should you have interest in personal programming, free software programming tools simply rule!
So, use the oldest WIndows or Mac PC for streaming content that works. Use a free operating system for productive uses like leaving this comment. (For my definition of productive ...)
The work arounds I allude to are strictly speaking illegal. For a period of time the window is open for productive research on that path. Take it soon!
On the first of these two, if your computer has a TPM chip, I think it's important that the first boot be to not-Windows. I'm check into TMPs now, but there's some frightening info out there about what happens as soon as they get initialized under Windows.
As to the second, yes. I've been running Linux Mint for years. The system I used now (Dell) has never had Windows near it. I had it delivered with Ubuntu — still an option with Dell.
Yes, you are correct. As a first time user you want to bypass the Windows boot. There should be a key to press to put you into the Bios where you can direct the boot device to be a USB thumb drive.
I had a mountain bike ride that left me with two broken ribs and and a busted greater tuberosity exactly two weeks ago. Even after surgery, the pain and the grudgingly provided pain medications (frankly inadequate) have taken a bit of toll on the precision of my comments.
In, short the spirit of both of my previous comments is well founded. Do a bit of research on the web for assistance. Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian have websites that will walk you through dual booting and too, with diligent search of manufacturer's web site or the innertubes the magic keystrokes to bypass a Windows boot.
A computer preinstalled with Linux is the most painless way to go. System 76 systems, Penguin systems, Dell and others offer free operating systems preinstalled and some are self-repairable!
It is quite easy to take the Windows PC you have and install a free operating system in addition. That allows for dual booting. Once you get used to the new system you can delete the infestation that originally owned your hardware.
Check free operating software websites for instructions on how to do this! And the clock is ticking ... install a free system soon, like yesterday!
Free, as in freedom , not free as in a gifted beverage.
OK, this has been coming for years. Megalomaniacal dark triad misanthropes like the ellison's have been slobbering over this kind of power for a long while, and so here it is, abetted by another maniac in the Oval along with his infinitely brighter and even more nefarious acolytes many also in the billionaire oligarch fuck every one of you class. The question is how do we successfully and durably end this trajectory and recapture individual sovereignty ?" I'd like to read more about that.
I’m even more pleased that I moved to Debian Linux after reading this!
I did “upgrade” one laptop to W11, just in case, but have found no use for it.
I think the big impact is in the corporate arena where Windows has tied up the entire market through deployment of MS Word, PowerPoint etc. They were truly enabling…. but they became a tender trap.
While you can, once turning on your brand new computer, bypass the bios and boot from a thumb drive with a free software installer. Free being linux or one of the _BSDs. (Linux has hardware support and software out the wazoo.)
You need to do a bit of research to find the proper keypress to bypass the bios FIRST.
That's step one.
Unfortunately there will be more hurdles. Many steaming services refuse to serve content to a free operating system. This is pure horseshit as a browser on macOS gets the stream that same browser on a free operating system will not. Working around this on a free operating system is possible. On the bright side, the internet shopping mall is happy to take your business so long as you have a proper payment method. You can even arrange for the streaming services that after payment, will refuse to serve you. Which of course should be illegal!
Of course, the information side of the internet is fully available on a free operating system. And should you have interest in personal programming, free software programming tools simply rule!
So, use the oldest WIndows or Mac PC for streaming content that works. Use a free operating system for productive uses like leaving this comment. (For my definition of productive ...)
The work arounds I allude to are strictly speaking illegal. For a period of time the window is open for productive research on that path. Take it soon!
On the first of these two, if your computer has a TPM chip, I think it's important that the first boot be to not-Windows. I'm check into TMPs now, but there's some frightening info out there about what happens as soon as they get initialized under Windows.
As to the second, yes. I've been running Linux Mint for years. The system I used now (Dell) has never had Windows near it. I had it delivered with Ubuntu — still an option with Dell.
Thomas
Yes, you are correct. As a first time user you want to bypass the Windows boot. There should be a key to press to put you into the Bios where you can direct the boot device to be a USB thumb drive.
I had a mountain bike ride that left me with two broken ribs and and a busted greater tuberosity exactly two weeks ago. Even after surgery, the pain and the grudgingly provided pain medications (frankly inadequate) have taken a bit of toll on the precision of my comments.
In, short the spirit of both of my previous comments is well founded. Do a bit of research on the web for assistance. Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian have websites that will walk you through dual booting and too, with diligent search of manufacturer's web site or the innertubes the magic keystrokes to bypass a Windows boot.
A computer preinstalled with Linux is the most painless way to go. System 76 systems, Penguin systems, Dell and others offer free operating systems preinstalled and some are self-repairable!
It is quite easy to take the Windows PC you have and install a free operating system in addition. That allows for dual booting. Once you get used to the new system you can delete the infestation that originally owned your hardware.
Check free operating software websites for instructions on how to do this! And the clock is ticking ... install a free system soon, like yesterday!
Free, as in freedom , not free as in a gifted beverage.
OK, this has been coming for years. Megalomaniacal dark triad misanthropes like the ellison's have been slobbering over this kind of power for a long while, and so here it is, abetted by another maniac in the Oval along with his infinitely brighter and even more nefarious acolytes many also in the billionaire oligarch fuck every one of you class. The question is how do we successfully and durably end this trajectory and recapture individual sovereignty ?" I'd like to read more about that.
"the billionaire oligarch fuck every one of you class"
Nice turn of phrase, Mitchell.
Thanks Thomas. I am so very weary of these people