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thingsiplay
lemmy.ml
thingsiplay@lemmy.mlJoined: 2026-01-09 |
Why would they make a rural Chinese granny either go out and buy a new computer with preinatalled Linux or go learn how to do it herself, just so that it's legal for her to call her relatives? Sounds a bit shortsighted to me.
It's to protect her and the country from being spied by "Americans". |
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nyan
sh.itjust.works
nyan@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2024-03-22 |
How can a government enforce such ruling? It is not the same as blocking the websites you don't like.
All they really have to do is specify that all new machines sold domestically have to be loaded with their tailored Linux distro and no other OS, and they'd eventually get rid of the majority of Windows machines. Enforcement of that should at least be possible, since they'd only have to check sellers and distributors of new equipment. Then just lean on domestic developers and/or software companies so that they don't provide new versions of must-have applications (whatever those may be) for Windows to encourage the holdouts to move on. It would never fly in a country without an authoritarian government, but China could likely get away with it. It just wouldn't be instantaneous. |
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erebion
news.erebion.eu
erebion@news.erebion.eu Joined: 2025-11-20 |
"marketshare" Many distros do not send telemetry by default, so this "metric" must be wildly distorted. |
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