On Tue, April 12, 2016 1:43 pm, Always Learning wrote:
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> I refuse to do anything at all on a Microsoft machine. I feel ill when I
> see the M$ screens and remember the countless months of my life
> frustratingly wasted trying to get M$ crap to work. Centos is true
> liberation and how computer operating systems should be.
UNIX BSD free derivatives could have been too. Didn't become as widely
popular as Linux though ;-)
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> I would like the EU to ban the monopoly of M$ on all laptops sold in the
> EU. Instead of paying the M$ tax, users should have a choice of
> operating systems.
>
In US you can buy some laptops without MS Windows OS (read: with Linux,
most likely Ubuntu) from some small manufacturers... I believe, one could
do that in Europe too. I remember, some researches visited us here with
laptops they got in Europe with Linux OS - again, from small companies.
Valeri
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