“off lease” means they were leased out to corporations and have been returned and are now being sold.
“thin client” is a thin client. familiarity is assumed on linux@programming.dev
“lot” means the seller is selling more than one of 'em.
ITT: The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch.
The magic words for ebay:
off lease thin client lot
Huh. The Year of the Linux Handheld.
If you don’t mind using the computer labs (are those even still a thing? when did I get so old that I wonder if commonplace things when I was in college still exist?) or a vm for assignments where the professors require the use of MS software. Which is likely just the intro computer class they use to make sure the kinesiology majors know how to use office.
Of course, there’s also learning management software which is universally broken, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some of it still required IE6.
Apologizing and stopping are two different things.
Douglas Adams was a huge fan of Apple.
I’m happy with XFCE and am looking forward to Wayland support.
“Unlucky Backup” is probably worse.
Don’t forget the GPL itself.
Your assessment of probability is speculation
It is, but anecdote is insufficient to counter it.
Hence “are likely to be,” not “are always.”
Microsoft has been consistently “stupid” for a very long time about this one particular thing.
People who dual boot are likely to be linux newbies just trying it out. They’re more likely to blame linux when microsoft does what it does to competitors.
If Microsoft didn’t have a decades-long record of pulling shit like this, they might get the benefit of the doubt.
Lot easier to swap parts on a thinkpad.
And are now releasing something for users, which is a different animal.
Embrace.
Whatever SCO thought they were doing.
Gonna be a lot of perfectly good hardware going up on ebay soon.