It is not always easy for consumers in any country to tell whether a product contains added sugar, and how much is present, based on nutritional information printed on packaging alone.

That seems like the problem that actually needs solving.

This is all of the bits that aren’t the operating system.

It’s concerning that you think “just buy new stuff” is reasonable and that Windows should only work on new hardware out of the box.

Microsoft are deep into the government with exchange and Active Directory with most being migrated to Microsoft365 and Azure.

Add in MS Teams, SharePoint, MS SQL, 30 years of business rules living in old excel macros that ends up running the entire company.

Windows enterprise licences would be a tiny part of their spend and far too costly to mitigate away from. Most large corporations are virtualising old windows version just to keep their existing legacy apps runnings.

I feel arch users would be far more popular if this were true.

What are you running? How was this done?

Agreed. Apple provides a free service locked to their hardware. It shouldn’t be surprising that they patched the vulnerabilities and blocked accounts.

The machines are Dutch and the designs are made by the customer. The Taiwanese advantage is their government subsidised chip manufacturing. They aren’t wizards.

Your chosen GNU/Linux distribution installs the applications.

Isn’t NTFS-3G required anymore?

Nothing better than Google and Microsoft sniffing your traffic.

Not true, steam makes it incredibly easy. Install steam, tick compatibility option, install, click green play button.