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Somewhere, those have to be considered a crime against humanity.

I look at this and my brain just goes "soggy pickle slices and batter was not thick enough, nor did the slices spent enough time in it".

So...

DO IT AGAIN!

Windows XP was the best OS ever. Then it was overtaken by any other alternative.

It's expected. Right now, it is becoming a safe space for political dissidence. As sentiment pools and gathers mass, things tend to get towards the polar opposites and revolt breeds more revolt. Anything less than total agreement is viewed sideways.

Good. If they are willing to smear us, they fear us.

Very, very nice.

I feel personally attacked by that. Am man and able to cook. Unfair generalization. I do still manage to leave the toilet seat up.

Linux has been ready for the last twenty and I am not afraid to say it. Before moving over, I used to be the biggest Window$ fanboy you could find. I would literally preach at the smallest opportunity available and make everyone in a 10 meters radius around me groan and roll their eyeball so hard they would fall off their skull.

Then I go and buy a new laptop that I was told didn't have a pre-installed OS after paying for it. Because I had zero extra money to go and buy a copy of Window$, I ask a coworker to hook me up with something and in the time it took me to go from the store to my job, I had a SUSE Linux disk waiting for me. Back in 2005.

I unpack the laptop, we boot it to have access to the CD drive and the damn thing starts to boot into an unannounced Window$ Vi$ta. Apparently there was a Window$, unfortunately it was the wrong version, because at this point in time, for me, it was either Window$ XP or nothing. My coworker shows me how to setup up SUSE, which took all of two hours to achieve, including mannually configuring sound and graphics card. The machine is now dual booting.

Out of morbid curiosity, I play a bit on Vi$ta. It's slow, clunky, things are not where they should be. The machine burns through the battery in under 2 hours, under conservative energy settings, while under an OS I was previously completely unfamilliar with I feel more at ease, using GNOME as my desktop and the battery management is good enough that those two hours of battery life get stretched closer to three. This is roughly a 50% increase.

Remember I was this big fanboy? No M$Office, no WinAmp, no WinZip, no nothing. I'm lost. Right? Wrong. With zero effort, I get all the software I require for my daily life and then some. And it comes pre-installed. No need to rely on shady websites to get software. No hassle. No headaches. It just works.

Fast forward today.

I have zero machines in my home with Window$. I don't use it. I still know how to but I don't. I don't recommend it. I only advise using FOSS, if the person is a terminal locked-in Window$ user.

So... Linux is ready.

Exactly. But I risk more than an handful of women endured it.

I caught the drift an took it. No harm, no foul.

But I actually knew a few blokes that had that type of facial hair. Can you imagine that short, three days growth, but manicured to look nice? It was nicknamed the carpet burn on some circles.

Hair conditioner. I can't grow a beard to save my life but those I know that can swear by it.

Dude... you have a nasty pokey beard or one of those wiry mustaches capable of gouging an eyeball? If so, she could, but maybe she shouldn't.