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TimeSquirrel

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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So we are basically at:

“Eat this piece of shit or the insane guy with a gun behind you blows your brains out.”

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I’m gonna be honest, I had to use it last night, but that was because I was installing a non-Steam Windows game (Simcity 2013) and needed to use winetricks on the terminal to configure something before it would launch. If you are doing anything outside the predefined and preconfigured stuff, it can still get pretty hairy sometimes.

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I’m sorry, I feel bad for it all, and her having to deal with that, I really do, but at the same time it’s funny as shit. What did she think was going to happen when she associated herself with these people?

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No try-catch, no early exit condition checking and return, just nuke the system and start over?

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You forget servers, network appliances, and other infrastructure? That’s where the bulk of Linux lives, not on Desktops.

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Goes back way further, almost all the way to the beginning. Seattle Computer Products’ QDOS was bought and rebranded as MS-DOS. They never had any original ideas of their own. Always a day late and a dollar short, and when they finally get around to it, it’s with someone else’s shit they acquired or ripped off.

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open source all their proprietary code.

We did it once with Win2k…good times.

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