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2026-09-14 16:38 UTC

My company issued me a computer with Windows just fine. Except for Office 365, everything else I do is much better to have Linux native on it. So they are perfectly content to help me run Windows, I still don’t want to run windows. I was expecting you to say just use it in a browser, which actually I do 99.5% of the time. However, just last week I had to boot into Windows because of being forced to work a powerpoint presentation in ways the online powerpoint simply won’t touch. Similarly, I’ve heard people speak the same of Excel, but I haven’t experienced that one personally. Incidentally, booting into that Windows install, the updates took about 6 hours before it was happy. Between Microsoft and my work’s endpoint management, it’s a nightmare to try to maintain the work Windows load. I had a similarly neglected Linux laptop and it took about 30 minutes to chew through an even larger window of updates.

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  • Microslop has windows 10 and 11 for free as iso’s on their site because the only thing people pay for now is the registration code. I download the windows 10 iso, load it onto a cheap ass temu, knockoff SanDisk USB flash drive with impression andoad it onto my tower… Apparently it was the windows 11 iso but in the downloaded file of the windows 10 iso. So now there’s just dog shit loaded on to my tower but not just a y ol’ dog shit, it’s dog shit that’s unable to be removed from my life.

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