Can we start calling the act of leaving Windows for Linux "defenestration" please?

@magnusmanske

Can we start calling the act of leaving Windows for Linux
"defenestration" please?

NO, why,

DEFENESTRATION definition: the act of throwing a person or thing out of a window

That has nothing at all in common with the act of moving to Linux.

@Kerplunk @magnusmanske "leaving windows"

@magnusmanske Brindows

@magnusmanske Nice word.

@Kerplunk @magnusmanske
It’s more what Microsoft is doing to their customers

@hbond @Kerplunk @magnusmanske
I'll take that plunge

@magnusmanske and if you return back to windows that makes you a defenestraitor

@AccordionBruce @magnusmanske

It’s more what Microsoft is doing to their customers

You are a data cow getting milked, not a customer if you use windoze or any other ms products.

Pay and pay for frustration and crap products, at long last more people seem to be waking up at last.

Linux was already ok for desktop use about 20 years ago, now it shows what total trash windoze really is and allows users to own the hardware they paid good money for.

@magnusmanske

No.

Defenestration is forcible and isn't normally good for its object.

(And it would be a cultural appropriation of Czech history, btw.)

@magnusmanske that would be grammatically incorrect. In defenestration the windows stay where they are, and you move. Usually downwards at terminal velocity

@magnusmanske Smashing. We sure can!

@magnusmanske Defenestration? There's a logo for this.

@Kerplunk @AccordionBruce @magnusmanske fine, it's what Microsoft is doing to their data cows

@magnusmanske Yes, certainly so and already I told this to many people in 2023 when I had "defenestrated my laptop!" One college graduate exclaimed to me, "You threw your laptop out the window?" I smiled and clarified to him, "No, I threw Windows out of my laptop!"

I'm unsure why so many comments refer to defenestration as solely involving people when very obviously the root of the word is so similar to the word for window in other languages, French and German have similar-looking words for window.

@magnusmanske Fernsehen vor Jahren aufgehört, weil die Scheiße einem verdummt.

@magnusmanske Creating an entirely new word like "afenestration" (based on fenestration, which is the installation of windows, meaning afenestration would be the opposite) might be better so we can keep the sacredness of defenestration.