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I ditched Windows BTW.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an article from 2020 and I'm fairly sure it didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here’s one from 2022, in with only 20% of government computers still use Windows. This article also only mentions government computers. I say it’s very possible that the government has fully switched to Linux. I tried daily driving Deepin 20 once and the only major problem was that most of its packages were very outdated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yellow Turban Linux coming soon?

If only Russia would follow suit. I've noticed they've had a problem with their Windows crashing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There might be a bug in our lemmy app (memmy) because this post is stuck on the top of my feed, I also thought it was recent…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's pretty ironic that a country known for oppressing people's freedom to take advantage of an OS famous for spreading freedom. I suddenly feel like I built guns for serial killers.