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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Me: updates Linux. Remembers windows patch days. Laughs.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Me: I never update. My immutable distro downloads new images in the background and they get mounted next boot.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Me: Never reboots

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago

well if you w98bsod you don't need to reboot

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I'm intrigued but maybe next time. Not hopping much.

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[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

I installed LMDE on an old Chromebook today.

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[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So glad I dropped windows nearly a decade ago

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

Wesley speaking the Penguin Gospel here.

Shut Up Wesley, most everyone on ~~Lemmy~~ The Fediverse knows at least something about Linux 🐧

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[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I'd be pretty disappointed if they didn't honestly

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[–] stevles@aussie.zone 27 points 2 days ago

Chris Titus saves the day https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/bypassnro

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 29 points 2 days ago (6 children)

For real this time? No more workarounds?

I still keep it around on a secondary drive for Battlefield and such, haven't booted into it in months tho

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For windows Home

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Which no one should ever purchase anyway.

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No one purchases windowa. It's just something that already comes on the computer.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

You did buy it as part of the base price.

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[–] the_fuckler@nord.pub 2 points 2 days ago*

Just remembered we can't even build computers at home right now

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[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

yeah I have never use Home only Pro. I have to fix win 11 so i might as well use it. Wish I had drive to do IT fun stuff after work but then it just feels like work.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I have Win10 on a laptop only to drive a photo scanner. I have Win10 IOT installed in VirtualBox but I haven't started it in almost a year. I don't think I need it anymore, but it's there in case.

I installed Linux Mint after first looking at Ubuntu. I don't see any reason to leave Mint, it just works.

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Mint is very smooth

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

Favourite distro: Mint. Favourite Dr Bronner soap: ditto.

My computer runs like a dream and my arse feels like it ate a tin of altoids. Thriving AF.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I have 30-year-old scanners that work perfectly under linux. I bought a scanner last month for my mother which also works perfectly under Linux. Is there just some special feature of the software that you need? Or does the scanner just truly not work under Linux?

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[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I don't want to have to interact back and forth between my computer and my scanner to scan documents. My scanner has buttons on it, I want them to work. There are very, very few scanners that will scan directly to your computer or a network drive using only the buttons on the scanner that don't require a Windows or Mac PC running their network scan server software. And the companies that do publish their drivers and software.to Linux don't ever seem to include the scan service component, so you have to drive the scanning operation from your computer instead of the scanner's buttons.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Fair enough yeah. Myself I don't mind loading up the ADF and just clicking scan in skanpage. But everyone has the workflow that works for them. And that's valid

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[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Mostly, it's just that nobody uses their computer in the same room that the scanner is in, and they don't want to find a place to prop their laptop while using the scanner.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I solved that issue by having a computer in nearly every room. I may have a problem. But I prefer to call it a hobby LOL.

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[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

😅

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

Had an ancient Core 2 duo laptop. 4 gigabytes of ddr2 RAM. And 256 GB spinning rust hard drive, no webcam, and a native resolution just barely above 720p. Attach a cheap $30 720p projector and Bluetooth shower speaker. Toss Haiku beta r6 on it. Project on the tile above the bathtub. Perfect for some basic authentic shitposts and watching some YouTube while soaking in some Epsom salts.

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[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Y’all need Vuescan in your life.

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[–] Varesti@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I only have one device with a Windows partition and it isn't 11.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You're still rocking the best windows version?

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 11 points 2 days ago

cant wait for Windows ZE (zoomer edition)

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[–] INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not today Satan... Windows 2000 pro wiped many copies of ME

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

Or 98SE. We bought a new laptop with ME on it, couldn't understand why it was so slow compared to what it replaced. I finally said screw it, whipped out my 98SE CD (which everyone had around), and replaced that POS ME. And it's amazing how the new laptop ran fast and now had none of the issues with things like printer and stuff. I don't know what it was about ME that made it so bad, but it was.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I rocked Win2K all the way past the XP end of support.

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[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 2 days ago

The first computer I had (in my room) came pre-installed with this. I was so very fluent in the reinstall process by the time it was all said and done!

it could play my favorite maxis games as well as Starcraft and Pharoah so i didn't realize how much of a pain ME was

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Wait... really? When? Got a news article?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

I was curious about this too. I went looking and am not finding any new articles about this. Just some from a year ago saying they were intending to do this at some point in the future.

ETA: Just logged into my laptop, which is running Windows 11 Home (it came with it and I haven't bothered to change that yet), using a local account. I can log in fine. And there are no pending updates.

This meme is baseless, at least right now.

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[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Looked into this a bit because, from my work experience, I'm pretty sure it's a lot harder to install Windows 11 with a local account than it used to be. Most people I help are logged in with Microsoft accounts, and most of the results I get when looking at how to make a local account in Win11 are workarounds and command prompt lines.

According to this article last year they tried removing those workarounds.

https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

So it affects new installs, but existing ones are okay (as long as you don't want to create another new local account). Okay that makes sense. My company is pretty new, but I can't remember if it was an extra pain in the ass to switch to a local account, or the same pain in the ass as usual.