If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.

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    1 year ago

    Microsoft isn’t going to be replacing desktop Windows installations with cloud installations, and nowhere in the article does it suggest it is.

    I’d say Microsoft’s long term needle-moving strategy including the bullet point “Move Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” suggests it pretty strongly. Calling it “needle-moving” says to me that they want the cloud to be more and more the expected default, rather than an option that exists alongside desktop installs.