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  • Re: This Is The End Of XBox

    From Joel W. Crump@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Mar 5 20:42:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/5/2026 8:30 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2026-03-06, Joel W. Crump <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/5/2026 7:31 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    So what do you get when Microsoft combines a closed, locked-down
    platform with an open one? Closed + open = open, and I can’t see any
    way around that. Unless the XBox part was carefully walled away from
    the regular PC part by an impenetrable barrier, but then you end up
    with a two-headed Frankenmachine, which cannot offer seamless
    interoperability between the two modes.

    And turning the XBox into an open platform means the end of XBox.
    Because “XBox gaming” becomes just another variety of “PC gaming”, >>> which was separate in the first place only for rapidly-disappearing
    historical reasons.

    It seems clear from what I've been seeing that Windows 11 is the end of
    the "PC" as we knew of it. It would seem likely MS could produce a
    Linux-based environment that would carry on its purpose.

    I had lunch today with a friend of mine who is a scientist and she mentioned that her son, who has gone back to University to advance his degree,
    was telling her that Linux and Apple are very popular on campus.
    The school's IT department supports both.
    While Microsoft is still used by the majority of students, that number is changing.
    Much of it is related to cloud computing which as long as you can access the cloud it doesn't matter what OS you are running.
    *MY son* says the direction Xbox is taking is a death sentence for Microsoft. He's a hardcore gamer who uses games to unwind from his super high pressure job.

    I dunno.
    Just a thought.


    Windows 11 has always been my favorite (exclusively within Windows
    versions, that is) ever since it came out, although objectively the best
    in quality was 8.x. But 12 unless I've been horribly misled is going to
    be something I never want. It would seem essentially guaranteed I'll be
    back to Linux, probably on my next device.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From rbowman@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Fri Mar 6 02:37:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 01:30:50 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Much of it is related to cloud computing which as long as you can access
    the cloud it doesn't matter what OS you are running.

    If you are managing or configuring cloud instances you'd better know your
    way around Linux, particularly on AWS and other providers than Azure where
    a MS Server instance is quite a bit more expensive.

    A knowledge of Linux is also handy for containers like Docker.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)

    It does run on Windows but when I installed Docker Desktop on a Win11 Pro machine it went off looking for a WSL2 instance. Hyper-V was the fallback.
    I had a Linux instance installed so I don't know how painful the fallback
    is.

    A college that ignores Linux is not providing the best education.
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  • From Joel W. Crump@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Mar 5 21:46:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/5/2026 9:37 PM, rbowman wrote:

    A college that ignores Linux is not providing the best education.


    Where I would've transferred to I had seen Unix servers in use,
    certainly would've been developing on it in courses. I dropped out
    before the end of my second year in community college, though, never
    enrolling at UMD.
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    Joel W. Crump
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