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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago

Windows had a character picker as far back as 95 and possibly earlier, actually.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

They mention the old character map, but that's not quite the same. It also looks like it's from '95, lol. In this case they have a shortcut and everything now.

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