And "Age verification"

And "Telemetry"

If you don't take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you're capable of switching to Linux it's hardly forced in any way that matters.

I'm still salty that they killed Cortana. For the short period between being released full-featured and MS gimping it hard in my region, it was the best assistant out of the bunch, by far.

All they had to do was add the option to add the capabilities of Copilot to the existing system and they'd have an actually killer feature.

How it started

How it's going

Hello? Hello computer! Hello?!

Cmon man. Join the right side!

It's really easy. Linux Mint. Bootable USB. Back up your important files on a separate harddrive. Plug in USB. Reboot. Install. Port old files over. Good as new

Bonus points for looking into how to optimize your partition structure, but it'd be fine to just let it do its thing. Also like... I guess you should probably make sure your audio and video cards are supported, but they like 98% are

what are you waiting for?

That day is closer than ever.

1. buy a hard drive
2. install on hard drive
3. now you're done

Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy

You won’t regret it. When I switched, I realised just how much it felt like I was just renting my OS from Windows.

So you have to know 4+ workarounds before you've even got an OS installed. Sounds "easy."

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I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.

Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.

I'm all for privacy but let's be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.

That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I'll basically have no one.

Why would we pirate games when we have SuperTuxKart?

Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.

Fake news

Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.

I'll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it's somehow completely unavoidable just isn't trying. It's always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they'll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.

Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn't to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go "here's the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems"

These are tools, not religion.

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