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    [–] Ferroto@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

    I was green for awhile but after booting windows for the first time in 4 months to use a scanner it started syncing my files with one drive without my permission (I never set this up). I did a hard shutdown and that was it.

    I would rather rip out a molar then boot windows on bare hardware again.

    [–] macke49@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Can Reactos be run from a thumbdrive?

    [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    I have all of these at home! I'll take slackware 7 on a thrift store thinkpad please. I imagine that pill is probably beige.

    [–] forkDestroyer 1 points 1 day ago

    Red. Currently in the process of trying to set up VMs on my Fedora workstation ( with virtmanager). It's a bit of a struggle getting them to save state right now, but once that's done I'm one step closer to never needing to go back.

    [–] Xyphius@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Never did manage to get ReactOS working for me

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    ReactOS can vaguely work, but since it can't really run anything, it's of limited usefulness.

    [–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    No TempleOS? The Lord shall smite you for this wicked heresey.

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 30 points 2 days ago

    TempleOS doesn't have a pill. It's just bread and wine.

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)
    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    The correct spelling is DBMS. The picture is accurate though.

    [–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Base Data System Management

    Still technically means the same thing

    [–] finkrat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Who dafuq is white pilling here outside of the developers? I've got questions

    [–] chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Can "Linux" be another color? Red pillers are incel neo-Nazi douchebags.

    [–] hancock@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 day ago

    Do not let them take any color. Own it.

    [–] FEIN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    i mean in the truest and most original sense, the red pill represented waking up from the status quo. in a world owned by Microsoft and Apple, a red pill is what linux is

    [–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    in its truest form, the red pill in the matrix represented estrogen. it's really funny that nazis chose that as their dog whistle

    [–] RomulusCornflakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

    Yes! (I'm a little biased since it's my favorite color.)

    [–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    its not Windows + Linux dual boot, its Linux primarily with Windows dual boot as a backup just in case i ever need fl studio or adobe

    +1 for this one.

    I had a Steam partition for years.

    [–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    i need more weird ones. haiku, nextstep, inferno, oberon, alto exec, os/2 warp, z/360, vms, maclisp, colorforth...

    [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

    KolibriOS and MenuetOS are there, but are so tiny we can't see them at all.

    AROS was there, but the kitty mascot refuses every pill

    Dont forget RedoxOS, long live the secure rust microkernel

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago
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    Red pill please. Only Linux please.

    [–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

    freebsd ftw

    [–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

    Where is Redox OS

    [–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 14 points 3 days ago

    For a second I thought this was about vertical scrollbars

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I installed plan 9 yesterday

    [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

    How is it going?

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

    Red pill. Tried the green pill but it was just too painfull having to still interact with windows period. Nuked it a few weeks ago. Screw the anti-cheat games lol, i'd rather not play them if that's what it takes to be free.

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