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Re:Schools should be using open source software by prmoustache on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @08:41AM (#31568838)
> You can be as smug as you want with your "2003" comments, but the reality is that it's simply not fit for purpose as a general purpose consumer OS.

Tell that to my girlfriend who swear against her windows 10 laptop that takes 30 minutes to be usable at boot and who 99% of the time end up borrowing mine to get something done.

Do you call that fit as a general purpose consumer OS?

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Re:Schools should be using open source software by ryathal on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @10:21AM (#31569818)
If every pc comes with a free live in support person then sure. You likely have better hardware than the windows 10 PC and have spent far more time an effort in the last year keeping your PC up to date, where the windows PC had none of that.
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