16 points

My Linux machine goes… no permission to execute. I go “dang, not what I was looking for.”

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17 points

sudo chmod 777

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Might want to try chmod +x instead

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No

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17 points

Don’t forget the sticky bit and chown root for extra convenience!

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You can do set it up to detect a windows exe format and launch it in wine without any extra intervention.

Make sure to chown it to root first with that suid bit to make sure it can get the library and hardware access that needs every time.

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it’s cool, I use linux now. It’s secure -mostly.

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Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I’ve used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It’s always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons…which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.

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Fun thing, the last time I used LimeWire was actually in Linux. So obviously I was immediately highly suspicious about .exe results. (Wouldn’t even have been able to run them anyway. Wine was far less functional back then.)

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14 points

Joke’s on you, I used Kazaa.

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6 points

Anyone who was anyone used emule.

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9 points

Miss the times of downloading a mp3 by leaving the pc turned on the whole night.

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I don’t miss going out on service calls and explaining to parents the reason why their internet is really slow is little jimmy or little lucy has been downloading Hentai porn.

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