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Comment Re:Windows is not a professional operating system (Score 1) 182

it came with Windows 11 and the fucking mouse pointer lagged, and not just a little but a whole lot. Slapped Devuan onto it (aside from resizing the Windows partition just in case I decided to care about it, mostly by hitting enter in the installer, after choosing to use the contiguous free space) and everything works great

If you install Wayland it will help with that "fast mouse pointer" problem. Can't have it going too fast, reinstall the lag.

Comment Re:Then how come... (Score 1) 131

These concepts have been addressed in much more boring detail then your mind can handle.

The main issue is that before now, there has never been a Palestinian state. Jordan owned part of the land, and Egypt owned part of the land. Jordan and Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel relinquishing their claims on the land.

But the Palestinians are still there, you can't make them disappear, and they have rights and should be treated well.

Comment Re:Teams was the canary in a coalmine (Score 2) 182

When I had to use Microsoft Teams at a couple of workplaces, I couldn't help but think "if this is where Microsoft is heading, then I need to de-Microsoft my life before Windows 11 becomes unavoidable."

Weird; Teams is the one Microsoft product (other than their mice and keyboards, which don't really count) that I actually like using. It's a little slow, and the text-search capability isn't very good, but for the most part it just gets out of my way, does its job, and helps me do mine. (I'm running it under MacOS, though, maybe that makes a difference)

Comment #1 operating system feature is trust (Score 1) 182

Unlike any other software program you run, your computer's primary operating system has access to pretty much everything on your computer; it has to, or it wouldn't be able to function as an interface to the hardware.

That means that the #1 feature your OS can offer is to be trustworthy -- if you can't trust your OS's developers to do the right thing by you, you're hopelessly screwed; no amount of virus scanning or firewalling can protect you from the OS itself. Continuing to use an untrustworthy OS is like keeping your money in a bank controlled by Bernie Madoff and hoping that he'll decide not to take your money.

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