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  • Drag and drop worked on windows 3.1. That was like the whole thing. “LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!”

    At this point, I’m fairly sure pissing people off is the point with Windows 11. It’s full of AI no one wants, refuses to officially run on most hardware that people already have, despite running just fine on that same hardware UNofficially, dropped support for drag and drop, doesn’t let you move the taskbar.

    And thats not even to mention the fact that it monitors you, and reports back to HQ with screen grabs and usage activity.

    Oh look, ZorinOS, just one singular distro, had 1.6 million downloads in the past 2 months.

    Wait, is there any special thing that happened 2 months ago? Oh right. Windows 10 support ended, and microsoft told its userbase “fuck you, you can’t get support for windows 10, and this computer can’t update to windows 11. This computer is now trash!”

    Suddenly all these youtube videos pop up “Is your PC unable to install windows 11? Try linux!”

    And these videos don’t try to sway you to one distro or another. They point out a few big hitters like mint or ubuntu. I can’t imagine them specifically naming zorin, unless it’s a zorin centric video. But I’m talking about the flood of “try linux” videos that popped up in October.

    And that 1.6 million is JUST zorin. That’s the runoff. I don’t have numbers, or sources, but gut instinct tells me that if Zorin had 1.6 million downloads, Mint must have had like 5 million minimum. Every video always reccomends Mint. It’s probably overtaken Ubuntu at some point as most used distro.

    And all of this, every single bit of user loss has NOTHING to do with linux. Users are angrily switching. Not happily. They feel abandoned, and forced to switch.

    If Microsoft either extended Windows 10 support, or allowed Windows 11 to be installed on reasonable hardware, this linux boom DOES NOT HAPPEN. This is Microsoft saying “Yeah bitch, money is tight! Go buy another computer, loser! You’ll do what we say, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us!”

    That’s when users switched to linux. This is pure hubris from Microsoft. It would be interesting if somehow we could get a combined number of EVERY distros doenload numbers.




  • Did you see how the ceremony went? Trump just grabbed the award like he was the grinch stealing a present. Then he put the thing on his own neck, and stood there like a dork.

    “Look at me! I’m the bestest president ever!”

    No. You’re a dork, who just created the first ever FIFA whatever award, because you DIDN’T actually win the peace prize anyone actually gives a damn about. You didn’t win the real one because you don’t know what PEACE means. Peace isn’t ramping up agencies who’s sole job is to kidnap people off the street. You’ve done nothing to promote peace in our times. You’re not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. So now you’re standing there like a dork.

    Everybody laugh at Trump! Look how embarrassing he looks!!! Hahahahaha!!!

    Alright, alright. We’ve had our fun, but I do feel the need to appologize.

    …The Grinch is actually a pretty solid guy. He gets undeserved hate. An entire town belittles him, and bullys him for being different. Fuck that town! Stand with Grinch!

    What? You thought I was going to appologize to Trump? Fuck off! Fuck Trump!


  • The fuck??? Why would home depot discoursge this??? Get a bunch of day laborers outside, who aren’t affiliated with your company, and it’s only GOOD news for your profits.

    Consider this. A new home owner wants to refurbish their kitchen. So the guy goes down to home depot to get some materials. But he also knows there’s some day laborers outside.

    So now he’s bought the materials from you, hired the labor from guys hanging around outside your store, and no matter what happens next, you made a sale because you’re known for having day laborers outside.

    Plus, even if they do a shitty job, the home owner has no recoarse against you. He can’t sue YOU for shoddy worksmanship. You never hired these guys. All you did was sell the materials, and the materials are fine. It’s the installation that was subpar.

    And plus, it’s not like home depot sells a seperate service of installation anyways. So they don’t lose money, they gain sales, and have no legal obligation, and benefit from having an installation team that you don’t pay, and aren’t legally responsible for in any way.