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		fartcannon on Nov 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) I don't tinker. I just run Linux. On Windows, I find the tinkering insufferable. No, windows, I don't want you to track me. New update? Do it all over again. Advertisements in the start menu? Ever update I have to disable that. Every time I try and fix something broken, Windows forces me to redo it again and again.

rbanffy on Nov 16, 2020 [–]

On Windows 3 I had a custom-built VGA.DRV with my own bitmaps in the widgets.

These days I don't bother to change Ubuntu's background.

I use the computer to get my work (and my hobbies) done. As Stephen Fry would say, I don't use a computer in order to use a computer.

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