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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm switching to Debian right away, this is nonsense

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

this suicide guy has a weird obsession with bears

[–] [email protected] 124 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's it, I'm switching to Windows!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Windows 3.11 that is. The last pure Windows there was.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why modernize 3.11 when you can modernize OS/2 Warp instead?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

My favorite bit of OS/2 snark from back then was "OS/2 = half an operating system"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cause I don't know what OS/2 Warp is. Is that IBMs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it's their OS from around the time. Was pretty good, worth playing around with a little, WinWorldPC has images if you're interested. It can run I think Windows 3.0 as well inside the OS if I remember right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Oooo thanks! I'll take a look. I'm in the process of making a multiboot external drive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can't modernise peak operating system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'd just want a file explorer and Firefox to run. That's all I ask for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Joke's on you. It's basically a dos s shell.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Exactly, that means it hasn't infected my entire system and is constantly connected and phoning home about my computer usage and browsing habits all day. I can just play Skifree and Minesweeper and not worry about a damn thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

You forgot gorillas.bas you heathen ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It isn't even connected to anything

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

as real as apple's privacy claims

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But they told the FBI to fuck right off with their bullshit! Listen Tim Apple is one of the good ones. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

They had it unlocked a day later by "3rd parties" right ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

environment.systemAds.enable = false;

to your configuration.nix file 😎

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just observing more than anything but this is the same kind of shit people say to leave windows because of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is a joke, there are no ads. I just wrote a fake command in the Nix syntax.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Lol i ate the onion then. Nice one.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Yep, Unity DE had ads. Then people revolted and Canonical eventually got rid of them and also switched to base Gnome with some extensions.

It definitely happened, I saw it in real time on my install of Ubuntu. But they learned their lesson on this one, I feel.

Not sure why there are some who think this is still a thing, though.

Side note: I’ve not run Ubuntu as my desktop OS I’m quite some time, opting instead for Garuda as of late and have seen no ads thus far :)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, that's concerning.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

It may of pissed a lot of people off. Yet people wonder why I have such a strong dislike of Ubuntu.

[–] pumpkinseedoil 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's been this way for at least a decade.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

an alternate timeline, where Linus didn't make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

You mean RedHat?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

bro you need to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro!

[–] Steamymoomilk 15 points 6 days ago

But have you heard of todays sponser?

{Insert corprate shillery}

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