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No one asked for this or wants it. This is about to be a $350 paperweight unless you can replace the OS with something.. You know, useful. Also, I will NEVER pay for "Windows" as a subscription. The only thing I use it for is games that don't work well in Linux. In the future, I will just stop playing (and paying for) those games if they don't make them run better in Linux.

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>Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year. Windows 365 Link is a $349 device that acts like a thin client PC to connect to the cloud and stream a version of Windows 11.

No one asked for this or wants it. This is about to be a $350 paperweight unless you can replace the OS with something.. You know, useful. Also, I will NEVER pay for "Windows" as a subscription. The only thing I use it for is games that don't work well in Linux. In the future, I will just stop playing (and paying for) those games if they don't make them run better in Linux. Archive: https://archive.today/D6qrY From the post: >>Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year. Windows 365 Link is a $349 device that acts like a thin client PC to connect to the cloud and stream a version of Windows 11.

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Just a matter of time till Microsoft stops supporting it altogether and tells you to fuck off when you ask for help on your fleet of 500 of them. Not worth the fucking effort to deploy them in the first place.

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Exactly. Its like "cloud gaming" No one, anywhere, has ever wanted that.

Now, if I can have one really nice rig somewhere in my house where I don't care how much head it dumps or how loud it is and I can "stream" games locally over my own network, I am into that idea (as long as it is super fast).

No one wants this shit. It is the next tier of vendor lock-in. They are trying to turn "the cloud" into a "mainframe" from the old days where you had a terminal but everything ran somewhere else. The difference is that consumer shit has no reason to run like that ever.

Is this thing even "ultra extreme low power and never needs a upgrade for 50 years"? or some such bullshit? (nope, it will probably be EOL before the first one ends up on your doorstep).