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    4 hours ago

    What do you think it would cost MS to sell a version of Windows that’s just…an operating system, and not an ad platform? Like Windows XP? Or maybe Windows 10 on day 1?

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        21 minutes ago

        Of course you can.

        Linux is great if you’re a software developer and don’t ever plug any hardware in.

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          7 minutes ago

          Maybe 5-10 years ago, apparently these days driver issues are less of a concern. Plug & play is the norm now, from my experience at least

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      Windows 10 on day 1 was still ‘calling home’ and recommending candy crush in the start menu as I recall. I had to dig into the registry to gut the windows store from it entirely to get windows 10 to act how i want an OS to act. Windows 7 was the last good windows IMO.

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      3 hours ago

      But think of the shareholders. They would loose so much money they would probably have to sell their third yacht!

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        But think of the shareholders

        I have many thoughts of the shareholders.

        Most of those thoughts are quite violent.

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        Shareholders ought to be thankful we don’t know their names, addresses or anything or we’d be knee-capping them dumbasses.

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        3 hours ago

        I would totally do that. Only problem is that the third yacht really is my favourite, so I’m gonna pass if that’s okay. Thanks!

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        I mean they would have to charge enough to make it financially viable. Maybe no one else would buy it but me…