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Debian Unstable (often called Sid) is a branch of the Debian operating system designed for active development of new versions of packages. It is considered the most recent, but also the most unstable of the three main branches of Debian. Other software comes with Oldversion and runs under Wine. Xfce Desktop Environments

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago

Without context, the image isn't that impressive. If nothing XP-related actually works and it's just a display exercise, it's just a 20-something year old skin import.

If absolutely everything works in the manner XP worked, then it's incredibly impressive.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago

So, a BSOD? Or a Zip Drive 'click of death'?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

I use a Windows XP computer (for distraction-free writing using old DOS word processors) and a bunch of Linux and Windows 11 PCs. Being in contact with XP regularly, I don't experience any desire to go back to doing things like that. It's really rough compared to modern Linux.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

...but still nicer than 11, right?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You don't get the same feeling of suspicion about what the machine is up to. Windows 11 feels like the computer spends just enough time doing what you want that you don't walk away forever in frustration, but most of the resources are spent doing unspecified things in the background for people you don't know, who are very interested in what you're doing. My Windows XP machine's CPU scores 75 on Passmark, while my Windows 11 machine scores about 46,000. But the speed at which they do many ordinary things isn't so different, because Windows 11 does so much heavy stuff in the background. My Linux machines (scoring between 8,000 and 28,000) all feel tangibly faster than Win 11.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

I do find recreating the whole theme of XP pretty impressive, it must have taken a lot more than just a "skin import".

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

if absolutely everything works in the manner xp worked, why not just use xp?

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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