(optional)

This.
And I’m sure bacteria or fungi could do it too (or are doing it for all we know).

Basically, Linux and Doom can run on purely ‘(optional)’.

Linux system requirements:
- computer (optional)
- electricity (optional)
- window (optional)

I’ve come to think of it as a (really) good thing - no financially motivated tech megacorp is gonna sell a monthly “sub to Gimp”.

(Tho a clothes rental company might.)

There are people out there powering their PC with electricity … what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

Are these Skyrim furry mods?

fucking-disk

Yeah, the poor thing won’t even load once before it gets nuked from orbit.

This hurts my brainhole.
Nice.

Well, I only know of one and you’ll need 12 angry men to pull it out.

Maybe ‘the same way windows is’ IBM-DOS

Soon to be closed-software Linux??? /s

Or wireguard, depending where & how they want to implement it might be simpler or better/worse on hardware.

People don’t say “install Windows”, they just want their PC to work. And if that PC isn’t for Adobe or kernel-level intrusive anti-cheat money-sucking games, there is no difference (except the spying).

Also the amount of maintenance with Windows after each update isn’t small (software like Shut Up Windows helps with regedits tho).

And most people don’t know what their OS even is.

But no, I’m not giving an iPad to people that want Windows :P.

Two bricks would be made in that case. >!In that PC case.!<

Since I’ve installed openSUSE Tumbleweed to everyone about 5 years ago I’ve actually done literally 0 tech support on that front so I’m superbly happy about that.

With Windows (albeit 7) there was always shit going wrong (not to mention XP before that which I basically regularly reinstalled). With various distros (Ubuntu & Debian mostly, but others too) there were frequent fuckeries of various flavours when upgrading.

I always install openSUSE without removing my buttplug. Or any extra USB cables.

I’ve done it to my family and friends over a decade ago.

Free tech support is for foss!

Grow up (enough) and adjusting your pp becomes a chore.

… that is def not my case, openSUSE is saving me a lot of time.

I’ve switched all my fiends & family (desktops) to Tumbleweed like 5 years ago bcs I don’t have to do any maintenance ever (not even customisation at the beginning, beyond setting them accounts). It has always been stable with exception that they only became “almost” out-of-the-box gaming friendly only in recent year or two.

Tumbleweed is just there, always updated, and feels nice. Oh, it’s not the quickest boot maybe?

Previously (15+ years, maybe 20 my parents) I had my family on Debians/Ubuntus which were stable but always very fiddly to distro upgrade, I don’t even remember what went wrong with old Fedora, but I changed it back in less than a year (almost 10 years ago, not relevant).