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I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux (www.theverge.com)
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[-] UNY0N@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for sharing. I'm too paranoid, as I have very little free time to fix stuff if it breaks. Still good to know.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

That's the beauty of it, though. If it breaks, you just roll back to the previous layer and carry on like nothing happened. Totally get where you're coming from though.

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