I don’t see how having a monarchy with no real power has any effect on the day to day lives of British people.

Then what the hell is the point in the amount of tax money that we spend on them? If tourism is such a big money spinner for the country then getting rid of them and keeping the related buildings would still bring in money without having to pay for the decadent lives of these parasites.

If that building could talk it would say some incredibly disturbing things.

I mean if they checked the galactic phone book pretty sure they would have realised Ben Kenobi might be related to ObiWan in 5 seconds like Luke did.

As much as I like electric cars this could be done with pretty much any petrol or diesel car with an inverter.

First experience was trying to dual boot Slackware and Windows ME on the family computer in 2003 after getting a magazine with the install disc on. Nuked the Windows install and got banned from the family PC for a while.

Then I got my own laptop with Windows 98 on it at 18. I’d just found dyne:bolic which was one of the first Linux live CDs if I recall correctly and was designed to work on older hardware (this was mid 00s). That machine served me well for 2 or 3 years.

A few years of bouncing between various distros and Windows followed. Eventually I made the full switch in about 2012 first to Ubuntu then Debian which I’ve been using for the last 5 years or so.

But not as much as the high seas me heartie…

I don’t want to sound arrogant but is reading a few paragraphs then copying and pasting 3 different commands into a terminal really that difficult?

It will make life easier in the long run as having a repo added will update the software with sudo apt upgrade in the future.

Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware

I’ve always kept a 32 bit Debian ISO on my Ventoy drive just in case.

Would be a shame if they stopped supporting it but I’d put dyne:bolic on my drive which was the first distro I ever used.

That helvetica scene freaked me out when I first saw it and I was like 16.

Any device capable of running the Steam version is more than capable of running the SNES version for free.

Like Peter Serafinowicz said, there’s nothing kids love more than complicated trade negotiations.

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Yea and coming with Visual Studio pre installed? No thanks

“Please agree to our terms of service.”

“Read it all!”

I’m genuinely worried I’ll be watching TV and Clippy will appear: “It looks like your entire species is about to be vaporised by a coordinated drone strike. Would you like some help? Well, you gotta beg for it now, bitch!”

Fascinating stuff. Think I’d prefer using this over most of the “alternative” OS that are about. But after reading more about this and Haiku I’m starting to think things like a modern web browser and video/ audio editing tools are probably going to keep me off them both for a long time at least.

Yea I haven’t heard of companies using BSD at all these days and it isn’t really suitable for desktop use. But I’m interested to see if Haiku progresses to be a good desktop Linux alternative https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/

Just follow the handy dandy Microsoft guide to installing Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

But seriously. Yes, it’s true that installing a new OS is a level of effort the average person is unlikely to want to put in. But they’re going to have to start because I believe the situation this Windows monopoly is causing is far worse than it appears on the surface.

It’s estimated that around half of PCs in the world won’t be able to run Windows 11 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3657628/more-than-half-of-pcs-cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-report.html

Sure, a good chunk of those machines probably can’t even run Windows 10. They’ll still be on earlier versions of Windows, even going back as far as XP in some cases.

Because of the “latest Windows” benchmark PCs depreciate only slightly slower than bananas. Part of the reason I got into Linux as a young and poor nerd was because it could run on much older and significantly cheaper hardware. But most people and organisations aren’t going to bother trying to resell their computers for the measly sum they’d get when they bite the bullet and upgrade, adding millions of still perfectly usable machines to the ever building toxic soup of e-waste and using more resources than necessary when creating new Windows compatible devices.

On top of that those who are unable or unwilling to upgrade end up with an OS full of more holes than swiss cheese that diminishes cyber security for everyone.

At this point, not switching to Linux (which is really the only viable Windows alternative) and getting the longest lifespan possible out of your hardware in a safe way is frankly irresponsible.

Ah well. I’ve since become #debian4life