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When I let Windows update and now I have to pay $10/month to unlock my computer (media2.giphy.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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When I let Windows update and now I have to pay $10/month to unlock my computer
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[–] 42 points 6 months ago (28 children)

It's time, OP.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Do people get Arch as their first distro and succeed in using it?

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  • [+] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Pfft, amateur. My first was some version of red hat (2? 2.1?) that took me almost a week to download, then I had to compile it, and then load onto, like, eight floppies.

    I can’t even tell you how many attempts I made before I actually succeeded in getting it to install, but it was one of the more traumatic experiences of my teenage years.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Slack 2 or 3 here I couldn't get it to install because it didn't have CD ROM drivers that worked with mine. Little did teenage me know I could have just copied the disk images to floppies but neither the sound or CD would have worked. I actually just installed it on a VM in Proxmox a couple weeks ago though. Now my windows 3.11 can telnet into my slack 2.3 box because why not.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Slackware 1.0 was at least 1-2 years later and a huge leap forward. Even Red Hat 2.5 was a major leap because it was the first Linux distributable that was pre-compiled and feee to download. It was also bundled with X.org and gnome desktop. That was a big deal at the time. The open source community was very political, even back then.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    My college roommate told me to wipe my os and install arch not thinking I would do it but I did, and that was 14 years ago. It's a fun experience but these days I just wanna throw a fedora ublue distro on stuff and use that.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Mint sucks. Zorin or Bazzite, cachyOS

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Mint is lovely. You're a tool.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's what you spent your energy on, and is the best you could come up with? Your mother is ashamed of you. I'd argue you're the tool for now knowing how to use anything else but mint, fucking waste of oxygen you are.

    I'm allowed to have a different opinion, I'm not your mother and don't have to love you.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It sounds like you spent more energy on this than they did on calling you a tool. And you're the one getting upset about someone having a different opinion. Your whole comment is projection.

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