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Can you run WSL or whatever it’s called? I se to remember some coworkers getting a Linux shell on windows. Of course that still leaves you with the shitty windows UI.

Oh buddy they’re wiping your laptop that sucks. Figured you were talking like servers and stuff (which is still bad.) if it’s company issued you don’t have a choice, but do they allow personal hardware to be connected? If so I’d just go buy my own thinkpad.

I have to wonder if anyone at Microsoft is paying attention. It’s like New Coke in the 80s. They quickly realized they fucked up and rebranded the original as Classic Coke. I’m wondering if there will be a Windows Classic coming out soon with no AI, no subscription, no forced cloud dependency bullshit. lol probably not but whatever.

Keeping with the soft drink analogy, I think Pepsi tried something similar in the 90s with Crystal Pepsi, which also failed miserably.

If “lime must go up” always, then they need to come up with a better way than product enshitification.

But LibreOffice has supported docx for years now, right?

LibreOffice supports .odt and .doc and .docx and a ton of other formats though.

LibreOffice (and its predecessor OpenOffice) have been a solid FOSS and *nix alternative for like over two decades. So I’m a bit confused about what these other alternatives provide that LibreOffice lacks.

What was it you would fallback to use Office for that you couldn’t do on Linux?

Unfortunately for the fediverse, most regular users want to use their twitters and facebooks and instagrams and whatnot. I don’t see regular users switching over. And if they did, you know the big guys would come up with something to compete.

Is there somewhere to get these drivers if you want to run really old hardware?

What the hell is Woola and Nocco?

Was this in the US? Because then you had PAL vs NTSC, which is think would be an even bigger problem.

I get mine on Amazon. But I know a lot of people don’t like Amazon.

Get a 2tb or 3tb external USB drive. They are pretty cheap.

Yes

Backup vhs tapes? They put copy protections on those too, which made that difficult. In the 90s I had two VCRs, I ran the output of one to the input of the other to record duplicates. Some of the copy protection schemes would fuck with the signal or the tracking.

En passant you mean? Also what does that have to do with anything?

I can never tell if this KDE Stan is a joke or not.