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I always get used laptops and they always come loaded with Windows 10 or 7. Takes like 20 minutes to boot up and every app does as well. Roughly 40 minutes later I get told McAffee System Defender needs updating or some other bullshit about me Not Being Protected™.

I wipe everything and throw Ubuntu on and it boots in 1 minute or less. I don't know how people can stand to use Windows.

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all my windows take about 3 seconds to boot to login

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Do you have a high end computer? I usually go for 2-5 year old Thinkpads. Also on old Dell laptop that is downright unusable with Windows 7.

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My 800 dollar, used Amazon netbook takes 3 seconds to boot. The fact that it came with McAffee. I think you need to clean install.

All you need is Windows Defender, and, yeah, apps that start with Windows make it take forever to "boot". You have to never install those or clean them up.

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Ubuntu is gay. Arch won the distro wars a long time ago.

How gay is Ubuntu? Well, even the definition can't be translated directly to English. Of course! English is the language of colonizers and slave owners. Why the fuck would English have such a concept?!?!?

Exhibit A: https://askubuntu.com/a/425/735634

The word of Ubuntu is very difficult to explain in one word in English. Some people say it means "humaness, to be human", some describe it as "Humanity in humility".

See the discussion in the ubuntu forum

Bishop Tutu has describe Ubuntu as:

A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

and

One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

Nelson Mandela describes it as

A traveler through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?

found in wikipedia

Exhibit B:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-meaning-of-ubuntu-43307

Ubuntu is a complex word from the Nguni language with several definitions, all of them difficult to translate into English. The Nguni languages are a group of related languages that are spoken in Southern Africa, mostly in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe: each of several languages share the word, and, at the heart of each definition, though, is the connectedness that exists or should exist between people.

Arch won the distro wars a long time ago.

BSD is the one true code!

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Hahaha that is hilarious

Maybe I can change some small code so it's not technically Ubuntu anymore? And name it CurbStomper5000?

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They are becoming increasingly annoying. From time to time they detect my pirated word/excel and break it. I have to reinstall to fix. Now I use Open Office unless I absolutely have to use Word. Fuck them. I'm not paying them a dollar for their shit operating system or software. If it wasn't for a few programs I need to run my laser engraver I would dump windows for good.

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Run windows with when you need it?

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Ive been using Linux for a while now, and outside some random things, i havent found many blockers

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Well I mean you stole it, what did you expect?

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Weird issue w my work computer. The win10 touchpad drivers corrupt themselves every 4 months forcing driver reinstall or os restore

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"corrupt themseves" -- you mean the storage is broken? or it's getting overwritten?

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Haven't run a file compare. All I know is deleting the drivers and letting windows reinstall immediately fixes the touchpad issue. When it doesn't fix it, only restoring it works.

Has happened 3 times.

Also the touchpad works in dos and cmd prompt applications and in bios fine.

Only starts misbehaving once it gets into windows.

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Windows 10 already warns you about unsigned installers. At least if it traces them back to the Internet. I don't know exactly when it flags, but it does flag unsigned installers, such as from many open source and amateur projects.

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At least you can toggle this feature on and off