• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Granted. Microsoft somehow gets exclusive legal rights to Linux. Linux is now Windows with a penguin mascot.

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      11 months ago

      Been there. Done that. Xenix - aka Microsoft Unix was one of the most popular *nix for microcomputer hardware in the early 80s.

      • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        See this is why history rules. No matter what kind of horrors I can think up, it’s probably already happened before.

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    11 months ago

    Granted. But owning to your obvious wisdom, all their support requests are being routed to your inbox ;-)

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    11 months ago

    Great. They immediately switch over, with no time to port things, and a lot of important things, such as government things, break.

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    11 months ago

    Granted. Everyone now uses arch and the internet’s bandwidth is now severely reduced because a good portion of communication now has the overhead of ‘I use arch btw’.

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    11 months ago

    Granted

    Now Linux is a propetary software full of bloatware who efficiently steal the private information of his users but can’t play games.