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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So what are the hidden features? The article doesn't say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

sucking their own dicks over Linux

This one trick explains why people who use Linux love it so much!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's the main reason I use it... I thought that was the point :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a hidden tool for that?

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

Only sudo and you're good to ~~go~~ suck

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's called fsck. It does both at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You rang? 😁

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

Shit I must be missing a kernel module

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

sudo modprobe i-can-do-it-myself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, hum... sex workers hate this one trick ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I mean, if using Linux made that possible for the masses, it'd be the most popular operating system in history.

Unfortunately for regular people, it isn't that simple ☹️.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You're god-damned right.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The hidden features are flags that Microsoft enables or disables for random users as part of A/B testing. The article contains a link to the various flags that can be enabled depending on your edition and version of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is what i came for, i wanted to know what these features are. Thanks for saving me a click

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

Afaik it's a tool to interact with an API to override A/B testing in an official way.
Apparantly some tool already exists that does it. Just not the official way.