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French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
(www.windowscentral.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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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.
I bought a NAS, and it had windows installed. Why?
It comes with a copy of Internet Explorer, and a copy of MS-DOS.
Only for a minute, now it comes with a good serving of TrueNAS
LOL
I'm old enough to understand this reference.
He got that off his XP machine he was talking about! 😂
I’m not quite sure how people use Debian on a desktop machine. Do you not fall asleep while you’re using it?
The interesting part of using my computer shouldn't be my OS, but the software I use on it.
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.
I like buttered toast
Every single morning!
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.
I had to install edge on my steam deck to be able to play 1 game. I cursed the machine spirit
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.
They made it so you have to open a browser to log in your account and not the launcher, only edge worked 😑