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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by koonsolo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:44PM (#16387452)
When my old acer laptops hard drive crashed, I tried to get my hands on reinstalling Windows with my OEM license: no go. I installed Linux Mint.

My new laptop with Windows 10 became so slow I also switched to Mint. Couldn't be happier.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by sli on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:05PM (#16388180)
I bought a super cheap Toshiba laptop for taking notes in college. One of those ~$250 ones. Completely unusable with the included Windows 10, but sailed with ElementaryOS.

I put Fedora on it first, and it was mostly fine but Gnome was too slow for my liking. But then again I was usually taking notes in vim in a terminal, so that probably wouldn't have mattered in real world use.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Karunamon on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:35PM (#16387873)
This kind of problem is why my conscience is clear when I use KMS cracks. I legitimately own about two or three Win10 licenses, but can't actually use any of them for various reasons.

Life's too short to put up with bureaucratically obstructive licensing schemes.

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