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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

It's really unfortunate that some people still rely on Windows for their computing. There are better, more respectful alternatives but Microsoft's stranglehold causes problems switching.

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder

This page is a work in progress but if you scroll down you'll see some rough guidelines on how to get off of proprietary software, eventually Windows, one step at a time.

Free/Libre/Open Source software is guaranteed to be supported by GNU/Linux, and it also has many other perks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I got a new laptop and one of the first things I did was install Windows 10. My colleague has more or less the same laptop and complains how slow it is.

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