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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Using windos is like being in an abusive relationship where your partner goes through your phone all day every day, you pay all the bills, you don't get to have sex or laugh, and you're reminded every day that you're paying too little and that there is so much more you should buy for your partner.

Just install Linux already. Yes, Linux has its problems too, but they are less and easier to fix than this turd

[–] [email protected] 240 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Alternative title: "Follow these 17 convoluted steps to stay in your abusive relationship longer."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That poor x220 deserves a coreboot and a good OS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I wish Roblox would stop having their fight with Linux and I just convert my kids over.

They absolutely don't need Windows for anything but Roblox at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, "oh no, I guess we can't have Roblox anymore!"

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any democracy can be replaced with a dictatorship with well placed CIA intervention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not like they have a lot of election choices, I've kind of got a one-party system going on. They can vote for me or they can vote for my wife but they're getting the same thing either way.

The problem is, they're eventually going to determine what kind of nursing home I go to. If Roblox buys me chicken pot pie Thursday I'll considerit a win

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My man is thinking ahead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

You sound like a good parent, those kids are gonna do just fine

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (6 children)

My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship.

Oh, now you've done it, you've pissed off the tankies.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude, if I could get them to seize the means of production...

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That workaround for your bi-yearly feature update on an unsupported PC is more complicated than installing Linux.
There, I said the bad word.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I mean, the real danger is they shove out an update that straight up breaks on your PC, as in won't boot even in safe mode because it does something with the TPM, and it'll be your own fault for deliberately circumventing the requirements.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely. They don't care what OS it runs as long as it runs all their shit.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (8 children)

*bites the tongue as hard as possible to not say The Thing*

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

Install Hackintosh MacOS

/s

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (7 children)

TFW you continue fucking around with Windows rather than learn Linux

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