Chinese government to dump Windows in favor of Linux

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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

They still use windows? Holy cow.

No wonder Bill Gates is so confident. He knows every Chinese state secret. Windows has so many built-in backdoors, especially after partnering with intelligence agencies. Bill Gates probably has enough info from Windows to blackmail every government in the whole world... I've never really thought about how big a deal that is.

It's also probably part of why he is a billionaire, and why so many governments are marching lockstep to his vaccine orders despite him having no real power... except of course access to every classified document in basically every world government... "If you don't want your secrets leaked, you will play along" could be an implicit threat from Gates to basically every government.

I'm just surprised they still use windows... that honestly blows my mind. They ban Nintendo across all of China for decades, but they use windows for gov't computers. Great priorities guys.

[–]monkeymagic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

nintendo isn’t banned in china. never has been. much of their content is heavily censored 🤬 but that’s about it.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

All video game consoles were banned in china until 2014: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/chinese-games-developers-eye-a-slice-of-49-billion-console-market.html

Almost no one in China has a nintendo. It very much was banned in China.

[–]portace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's closer to like how VPN is banned, but a lot of ppl still use it. Or like banning porn, but lots of ppl still get around it. Or like pirating movies.

Gamers can pretty much still game if they want to. The CCP will be stricter on certain games due to either cultural or political reasons, but there are ways to get around it.