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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even Windows 7 actually didn't care if you had no key.

You could leave it unactivated forever and the worst thing that would happen is it would have a "Activate windows" watermark message bottom right over the desktop, and it wouldn't let you change the personalization settings eg theming (oh no).

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It’s way more profitable to audit corporations than fight Eastern European crackers and Asian “distributors”

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I miss all those super weird XP editions seemingly made by colourblind and hyper 8 year olds (at least in taste). Like rockets, gold or muscle car themed distros.

    Nowadays all themes seems so... adult and boring. Tried to find some weird stuff in Plasma but alas

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago*

    Hannah Montana Linux OS keeping this proud tradition going singlehandedly. ✊

    Edit: not singlehandedly, just learned of the two other parts of the holy Linux trifecta, RebeccaBlackOS & Justin Bieber Linux Distro

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were "for parts only" where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.

    It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.

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