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Never heard of anything like that. The chameleon it is.

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I can count the times that I’ve needed windows for something other than a game (no longer an issue) in the past 25+ years on one hand.

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It’s 7 hours when you factor in the updates and the time spent having to go fish for software all over the Internet.

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Guardians of the Galaxy were the only fun ones anyway. The rest was rehashed trash.

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I forgot that those were from Marvel since they were actually funny.

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Being able to be called Unix just means paying for certification. No more, no less.

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I bought a Mac laptop once and lasted about 3 months before running back to Linux. Mac OS may be great for some people, but it’s definitely not for everyone. It was also hell to pull my photos out of their damn software.

The machine was ok though.

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It’s fun whether you play it alone or with others. It’s remarkably well balanced.

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Woah. That was a fine idea, but a free DLC? Management isn’t going to like that concept.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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At the time, I installed slackware with a lot of floppies.

Now, after trying quite a few, I settled on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. It has one of the best KDE desktops, and basically just works, whatever you do with it. It’s comfortable and boring which I see as great qualities.

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I switched to Linux from Windows 3.11 because Microsoft software didn’t do what it was supposed to.

My method is that I don’t even know what’s available for Windows, so I don’t miss it at all. The opposite isn’t true though, and time spent in a Microsoft environment can quickly become painful.

My only regular contact with Windows is the Steam partition which hasn’t been used for quite some time. I have a laptop that has a small win11 partition that I boot every now and then to see what they’re up to these days.

However, in the end, the only real answer is that if you really need a piece of software, you just run whatever system that supports it. It’s not a religion, you use whatever is convenient for you at a given time.

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But when you’ll be looking for XP compatibility in 2050, they’re going to be the only game in town.

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I think that the point is to get a much bigger radiator by moving it to a less cramped location. The point is to make the process more efficient, not to change its nature.

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It is now frowned upon to waste clean water in this fashion.

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I seem to remember that a text input field for details is available in the general tab.

I don’t get many crashes in kde so I haven’t seen the dialogue in a while.

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The purpose of Unix was to be user friendly. And it is. You haven’t seen what it replaced.

Also friendliness doesn’t require a Fisher Price interface.

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Unix was meant to be much friendlier than the mainframe systems that wer prevalent at the time and which wer horrible to use without a lot of training (or even with it). By contrast, Unix commands were simple, self documenting. Anyone could use it.

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Well, today it’s arguably more advanced, interface wise, than the other systems since they keep copying stuff from the X11 front ends.

All the current GUIs are basically the same Once you’ve seen a couple WIMP interfaces, you’ve seen them all.

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I find your lack of grammar… disturbing.

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Absolutely. Gnu was made to be specifically different from Unix which was becoming locked down by AT&T copyrights. Gnu wasn’t Unix, and therefore still isn’t.

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It doesn’t help that Microsoft, in its great wisdom, decided to hide them.

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Children could have been in danger somewhere! You never know!

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I thought that he was poking at a tribble.

"Yup, that one’s a goner, there’s no danger anymore captain. "

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