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What will it take, short of dismantling & abolishing capitalism, to get Windows PC makers to include the two most important user instructions & warnings in their leaflet excuse for a user manual?

Instruction 1: How to turn this daffy slab of scrap plastic off, as in for-real off.

Warning 1: The most intuitively obvious way, the power button, doesn't. It puts it in still-on sleep mode instead.

Instruction 2: How to reboot it.

Warning 2: Shutdown/"Turn Off" then turning it on again doesn't.

This ignores that Microsoft Windows is the problem, not the solution, but one result of that problem, Microsoft's OS monopoly, is that there's no viable alternative to Windows.

There are literally hundreds of alternatives, but none of them are viable. The closest ones, Apple MacOS & Google ChromeOS, are servants of capitalism pretending to be servants of users as well.

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