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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by pataprogramming on Sunday September 20, 2015 @08:21PM (#10249740)
And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?
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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by frozenport on Sunday September 20, 2015 @09:29PM (#10249940)
On one hand Windows is free because it came with my laptop, on the other hand a day of my time lost on Linux is worth more than the $200 Windows license.

Although this is very much about Linux on desktops.

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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by ionised on Monday September 21, 2015 @04:21AM (#10251011)
Your laptop costs more because it comes with Windows. It's not free.
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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by BetaCygni on Monday September 21, 2015 @09:32AM (#10252098)
Windows: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are impossible.

Linux: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are hard.

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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by cm2187 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:13AM (#10256907)
Well, from my short experience with linux, easy things require googling on linux. I was trying to open a port to make remote desktop work. I classify that as easy.
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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by BetaCygni on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:16AM (#10264026)
You may be right, googling doesn't take much time though. A Linux system without internet is indeed barely usable. Thos man pages are absolutely unreadable.
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Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers by vetinari on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:49AM (#10251423)
I've lost orders of magnitude more time on windows, than on linux. (Embedded linux devices included in the math).
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