archive.org is hosted in the US and could end up being a valid target. It doesn’t strike me as being a very good place to securely store anything nowadays. I’d consider anything hosted in the US to be out.

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

It’s an alpha, so I guess a number of things can still change.

It starts with a full screen window, no window controls… so sorry, it pretty much breaks the expected interface.

Great, it breaks all the interface conventions. How convenient.

It’s a start. Keep at it.

It’s pertinent if you only need something for a short time, or if you want to test something before committing to buying it.

Otherwise, there’s few cases where renting makes sense.

Besides, Plasma can look like anything else anyway, so why switch?

I could see this as an interesting lab concept. That possibly users could install from some kind of site if they really wanted it. Not as a mainstream function pushed to evry system. Even if it’s inactive by default for now.

I suppose that the solar panels are in a field somewhere. It’s much more efficient.

Can I give them 50 dollars and not have to use windows at all?

There is enough sofware that does not work

What Linux software doesn’t work?

The Lords of Arch will let you know when they deem you worthy.

Well, I said it was stable for a Microsoft system.

I understand that it’s strange to people used to windows, but we had computers that just didn’t crash. Ever. Then everything moved to PC with windows and it all went to shit. Now it’s mostly back to unix which while not crashproof is at least reasonably resilient and a proper system.

How many deer are on that road? It’s mowing down dozens of them in that video!

It seems to me that Windows, which used to be reasonably stable (say, between XP and 10), as Microsoft systems go, has gone into beta status with Windows 11 and is now slipping into a kind of perpetual alpha.

Disclaimer, I haven’t used Windows seriously for decades (now and then for the odd game or for VR) and only boot it every other month to see what it looks like.

Sounds like a regular internet article to me.

If it’s your os drive that dies, nothing important has been lost except for a few minutes of work. You can boot from a variety of media (cd, usb…) for recovery, or drive replacement. Worst case, you’ll have to reinstall a few things in the following days.

It’s also why it’s not a bad idea to separate the various aspects of the system on distinct drives.

The OS is the least important part of your computer.

Are they?