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  • To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn’t going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It’s a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don’t dabble in Windows specific software don’t miss it. It’s also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.

    I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I’ve had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.





  • Maybe they should have taken a different route to maintain the economy. Which was the supposed point of these business loans (certainly there wasn’t a deeper plan to fleece the country) How could we have applied billions of those wasted dollars differently? Well, we determined we couldn’t give more than a few hundred dollars to all people directly because they would find a way to fake needing it, like they do welfare and voting and needing help, so yeah. I don’t know.




  • The great thing about Coldplay is they’ve changed over the years, which of course pisses some off who liked one style and now expect it every time. I don’t like some of their songs, but the songs I do like I enjoy. The era of Clocks and Speed of Sound and Scientist were solid. There have been a few later ones I like too, but the songs either click for you or not. That’s how music should be, eclectic and not formula.

    I think the last song of theirs that hit me hard was All I Can Think About is You. May not be everyone’s type of song, but it felt like the Coldplay I like. And there’s the sleeper The Hardest Part.









  • How many nukes going off does it take to ruin everyone’s day? One. Modern rationalization is “maybe if we make it small enough”, no, it’s still one. Not only because it’s an environmental disaster even if small, but it crosses a line and once crossed, lines move around a lot. The last thing needed is a nuclear detonation and the world’s countries analyze it and determine, “well, it was terrible, but not THAT terrible. Maybe two is the limit.”