• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Even Windows 7 actually didn’t care if you had no key.

    You could leave it unactivated forever and the worst thing that would happen is it would have a “Activate windows” watermark message bottom right over the desktop, and it wouldn’t let you change the personalization settings eg theming (oh no).

      • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        5 hours ago

        I miss all those super weird XP editions seemingly made by colourblind and hyper 8 year olds (at least in taste). Like rockets, gold or muscle car themed distros.

        Nowadays all themes seems so… adult and boring. Tried to find some weird stuff in Plasma but alas

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          4 hours ago

          Hannah Montana Linux OS keeping this proud tradition going singlehandedly. ✊

          Edit: not singlehandedly, just learned of the two other parts of the holy Linux trifecta, RebeccaBlackOS & Justin Bieber Linux Distro