French activists staged a funeral for Windows 10 to protest Microsoft’s push toward Windows 11 and planned obsolescence.

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    20 hours ago

    I grieved when I bought a used laptop with Windows pre-installed. I immediately performed a ritual of Debian purification.

    Windows, or any other corporate MICROS~1 product dying is a cause for celebration.

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      23 hours ago

      I’m not quite sure how people use Debian on a desktop machine. Do you not fall asleep while you’re using it?

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          11 hours ago

          That’s what Mint is for. It just gets out of my fucking way. Most of the time I’m not aware that I have an OS.

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        20 hours ago

        I’m not falling asleep, my laptop is falling asleep.

        The problem is that it never wakes up. The solution is to disable every low-power option in system settings, and pretend that my laptop is very critical server, because Debian is made for servers.

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      24 hours ago

      I had to install edge on my steam deck to be able to play 1 game. I cursed the machine spirit

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        18 hours ago

        I… but…

        Did the system requirements screen at least warn you that you need wholly unrelated 3rd party software for it? Its like if I was trying to load up QuickBooks and it was like “Please insert slice of aged cheddar into drive A: to proceed.”

        I realize its not a perfect analogy-- lots of people like aged cheddar.

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          11 hours ago

          They made it so you have to open a browser to log in your account and not the launcher, only edge worked 😑