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perhaps it only ‘always’ seems to be that way because you haven’t yet done so


complete the task so you can change tunes to


“why tf didn’t i do this sooner?”

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Word!

edit: oops, no pun intended. Just a shoutout, like “well said!”

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Powerpoint!

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Yeah, for me, the big thing was that I only found out you could test-run Linux without installing after I had made the decision to install it. Of course, having no real clue what I’d get into massively delayed the decision


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I’ll do it. There’s no need to keep reminding me every few years.

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I keep saying the same thing, lol. My latest distraction is the Talon Win11 debloat tool. (Also works, mostly, on Win10)

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73 points

Number of ads my OS shows me: 0

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That’s the worst thing about dealing with Windows machines at work: it’s not just the browser that needs an adblocker!

And I’m not going through 20 laptops to disable that (is it even possible) unless I get paid for it.

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Remember when a “pop-up blocker” was a browser plug-in because the browsers didn’t yet consider it a competitive feature?

(Well, okay, Opera and iCab did.)

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I installed with a local windows 11 account using Rufus and I have no ads. Also went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack. It’s just a good old windows box again. Really works nicely.

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I installed with a local account using Rufus

I don’t really understand this, sorry.

went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack.

This makes sense to me because most ads/unsolicited information seems to stem from there.
It’s funny that on Windows you have to install a third-party app to change the OS’s behavior. I doubt I’ll be allowed to do that :(

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Yes but you are missing all the hot singles, and only getting the neckbeard ones.

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Number of ads my Win11 shows me: 0

Answer: Live in Europe.

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Amount of ads my operating system shows me: 1. I’ve got Ubuntu on an old laptop because I couldn’t get Debian to install and I didn’t know much about Mint at the time So I’ve seen a couple Ubuntu Pro popup ads.

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The best time to move to linux was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

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Does that mean I shouldn’t have switched in 2007 and instead waited eight more years?

But then I’d have had to use Windows 8

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I had win 8.1 for a long while. It really wasn’t bad. Win 11 is what finally pushed me away from Windows.

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I only had Windows 8 on a notebook that I bought and wanted to give it a try again, however I switched the machine over once I learned that it couldn’t be updated to 8.1 through normal updates, but that you had to use the store, because they were really trying to push the store. Also my NAS used NFS back then, which my home edition of Windows didn’t support, I think you need professional.

These two things pushed me to migrate the notebook as well

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I did both of those.

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I’ve never goten this meme. Was the astronaut on the left supposed to gave been kept away from any windows or views of earth the whole time?

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The actual history of the meme
 it started as an MS paint sketch where they were looking to a flat earth. With just the first saying “WTF it’s flat” one behind saying “sorry fam”. The more popular follow up was one where they were looking, except the only land mass on earth was a giant state of ohio, and second astronaut responded with “always has been”.

Oh as far as the idea that they didn’t look at it in transit, no idea
 though I suppose it’s more reasonable that this is the first spacewalk or whatever. Would imagine most the trip up, you’d be looking ahead rather than back at earth. Also I suppose depends on the subtletly or lack there of of what earth is “all”.

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That doesn’t answer any of my questions.

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I would, but my crippling WinRAR addiction keeps me on WinXP

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7-Zip for 32-bit Windows means MS DOS bro
 its time to move on up

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At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer for WinRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes. Never underestimate people’s fetishes.

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I mean pretty sure winrar runs just fine on WINE.

Though perhaps it’s about seeing how many years into the 40 day trial you can go.

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Oh, wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that
 Feels weird, like remembering the better times of past relationships, Jesus=))

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That’s because you have WinRAR sarcasm edition! A very good release!

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