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Can you explain why you think Linux needs the internet any more than windows does?

Are you perhaps not aware of the millions of embedded Linux installations that never see the internet?

After rereading, it sounds like I meant for the two sentences to be related, but I didn't mean it that way. I was referring to the fact of Microsoft trying to force people to connect to the Internet before they can install Windows, or sign in with a Microsoft account in corporate infrastructure scenarios where that makes no sense, and so customers are forced to use Linux instead, but that's a complication being added to their overall system for external reasons.

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