According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China’s Ministry of State Security, the country has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition for Chinese-made Linux distributions.
The Chinese government did not specify which Linux versions would replace Windows 10. However, the stock prices of Chinese Linux suppliers, Kylin Software and Tongxin Software Technology (commonly known as UnionTech), immediately jumped.
These companies’ respective operating systems, Kylin OS (no relation to Ubuntu Kylin) and UnionTech OS (UOS), were already positioned as domestic desktop and server replacements for Windows in government, state-owned enterprise, and critical-infrastructure environments.
This change to Linux doesn’t mean that there will be a nationwide ban on all Windows installations in China. Windows Home China 11, a restricted, factory-locked edition that requires you to use only Chinese, is still available.
The transition also doesn’t mean that every government body has been ordered to abandon Microsoft software. The directive’s scope remains undisclosed. Still, the writing is on the wall: China’s future government desktop will be Linux.
I’m not prostrating myself before Microsoft for using Windows anymore than I am prostrating myself before Kroger for buying groceries or prostrating myself before Exxon for paying for the natural gas that came pre installed in my home or any of the other things I do to survive in capitalist hell.
If you want to play “who is the Most Pure Leftist” go ahead, you’ll probably win by whatever rules you invent to define that I guess. You know literally nothing about me other than that I don’t have time to stay up to date on your specific hobby, and that’s automatically enough for you to make a bunch of completely incorrect assumptions about me that are unrelated to your hobby.
And then, you wonder why folks like me don’t really feel like investing the time to learning your hobby. I suppose it’s a mystery. Probably unsolvable! Better just come out swinging without spending a single second considering another human’s perspective.
I don’t understand all the hate folks like you have, by default, for people you don’t know. It must be sad and isolating and I hope someday you can approach people with kindness instead of vitriol.
I don’t hate you, I think you’re funny and pathetic. Live with something shit and be vulnerable to corporate whims if it pleases you to do so.
People sitting around waiting for someone else to save them are a joke. If your threshold for improving your own circumstances is “someone else must make it so there is zero friction” then you exist to be exploited by cruel people.
I am not a hobbiest of my computer, anymore than I am a hobbiest of my jeans because I can mend them or my kitchen knives because I can sharpen them. The threshold for using a linux computer is pressing install and being a little flexible as you adjust.
I already noted a few times that it doesn’t please me, but go off I guess. You’re clearly not interested in learning about human connection and empathy any more than I am about Linux so I guess we’re both ignorant in our own ways