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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 122 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (9 children)

He used the Home version?

He owned his own island, he could at least go for Professional!

I remember Windows 7's editions being a complete mess, but a come on!

Either ask your IT guy or your friend Billy G, both will laugh at you for picking a Home version when you have the money to go pro.

What a fucking loser.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Epstein's worst crime, really.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 64 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 53 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Funny enough I got 7 ultimate for free by having a Microsoft themed Tupperware party and using their party invite platform. They sent me a box with free copy and ms colored streamers and windows 7 napkins. I still have the napkins new and sealed. Had to take like 4 pictures with my friends around a laptop I think. Not a bad trade for the best version of 7. I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s. 7 was one of the good ones

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s

Just sayin, if you host a Linux install party you can get a copy of most Linux distributions for free. You can also get it for free if you don't host a Linux install party, but that's minor details.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Everyday is a Linux party here! Been running gentoo for like 20 years on my server box, which has now grown a couple more boxes in swarm config and my wife’s machine is now mint.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, but no sexy tux napkins

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

7 was the first and last version of Windows that I didn't immediately despise.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For me I think I enjoyed 98, XP, 7 it was nearly Star Trek rules every other edition was ok. 7 was the culmination of the best of. But absolute shit ever since. Honestly wish I could just go back to 7 for anything that requires windows( I try to stay away from it whenever possible)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

10 started ok , and then the rapey updates started

Yes and know, 10 started with telemetry that was just about impossible to disable right out of the gate.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I got a copy of Vista Ultimate from a friend who worked for Microsoft. Upgraded that baby to 7 Ultimate the instant I could and rode that product code for over a decade, until last year when I installed Linux on everything.

Actually, I think I might still be using that product code on my Windows VM. Hmm.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ultimate is such a nice codename, I'm a little tired of the modern deluge of Ultra, Pro and Max.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 19 hours ago

That'll change in an instant once apple slaps it on the next iphone

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 21 hours ago

I still have a retail boxed Windows Vista Ultimate copy new in box! I won it and never opened it. They also gave me a processor and mobo with it… THAT part I was stoked about.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago

I mean yeah, I just wanted to laugh at him for not doing the minimum.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The number of other people laughing at actually paying for Windows is not zero.

Aside, did you type "looser" ironically? 😅😶

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Eh, back in the Windows 7 days paying for Windows wasn't that bad of a deal, but starting with Windows 10 it felt as if you were paying to get ads.

As for your last part, I am not a native english speaker, and my phone has two dictionaries, sometimes it picks the Swedish dictionary, sometimes it picks the English.

I have been in situations where the dictionary marks a word as being wrong and offers a suggestion, when I then pick the suggestion, that word is also marked as being wrong, and the original word is offered as a solution.

This can be rather annoying, and means that sometimes stuff like this slips through.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

Bill G, was not his lover
He's just a man, who said
"I flew here for the sun."
But the kids aren't there for fun

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 10 points 21 hours ago

Come on, he uses Home Premium.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

with that kinda money he coulda been a mac user

[–] eah@programming.dev 13 points 20 hours ago

The VPN software he had to use to talk to Mossad was only available for Windows.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Not really anything a normal user would miss over home premium. Most features in pro and higher target enterprises.

[–] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The key is for a virtual machine as you can see in the picture.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 19 hours ago

on epstein's anime linux host machine

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago

Pretty sure he'd prefer the Years Old version anyway