Can I fashion a simple linux distro from various sticks and pebbles I find on the forest floor?
Well, according to Dr. Stone, you probably can
Roll a D20 for me please.
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You start assembling an assortment of sticks, leaves and a hollow bird bone, patching holes with moss that has already started to turn slightly yellow which you picked from the side of a tree. Somehow, your thoughts veer off and you begin to wonder if you could find a larger bone to turn into a flute.
When you look down again at your creation, you start to curse under your breath - you got distracted and manufactured a copy of Windows ME.
Seems about right, yeah
You can, you’ll just have to come pile it up
The syntax is 
Oops, my large hands posting on my phone are to blame for the error.
golf clap
Win 11 because wsl. At least I have some of Linux so I can use a computer.
def win 7
No question.
And that’s only because XP wasn’t a given option.
Same applies to Vista despite being much closet to Windows 7 than XP.
But I bet it’s this way only because nobody gave a shit about Vista. I was the only person who gave a shit about it.
Vista was hot garbage. That shit took ~1.5 GB of RAM to boot. In 2007. Total trash. Windows 7 was what Vista should have been. All of the features with less overhead.
Computers did take the take to adapt to the new software requirements, not to mention the two service packs that were released. By the time that happened, Vista became really good, but nobody cared because Windows 7 was RIGHT around the corner.
And yeah, if Vista ran poorly on that Pentium 4 thing, then I would suspect 7 would run poorly on it as well. Hell, I tried a virtual machine that barely met the requirements for Windows 7, installed Vista on it, and as expected, it ran very poorly. I tried Windows 7 on it. Same thing, it ran very poorly.
XP had the exact same criticisms when it came out in 2001. Again, computers had time to adapt, and as a result, people started loving XP, and I mean they started LOVING it, A LOT.
I’m one of those people. I ran XP SP3 straight through the rise and fall of Vista, and into the first few years of Win 7. I did the same thing with Win 98 and skipped ME/2000. The driver issues were insane with those releases. Microsoft seemed to have an “every other” rule with OS release quality.
Driver issues were mostly the fault of the manufacturers, not Microsoft. But even then, it would be a pretty terrible experience regardless.
That’s true, although I recall it being a problem with their development toolkit. The drivers were released, but didn’t work as expected.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Xp is extremely dated and 7 was the better OS
Better in terms of features, absolutely. XP SP3 was a more stable OS. Only downside is lack of security updates, which wouldn’t matter much in the woods.
What if you’re attacked by a bear ? You’d be wishing you had gotten those security updates wouldn’t you
Can I side load the Linux distribution of choice?
Sure, if you can figure out how to partion your drive properly.
Can I choose the bear?
Win7 4 lyfe, yo
Next question, pls
Windows Me. I play on hard.
You, sir, are a very sick person. Mad props to ya.
Oof.
Roommate in college got ME the night it released. Came back installed by around 1am. By 2am it was uninstalled and never touched again.
You sick bastard
Hahahaha
Come at me, bro.
Bob was ahead of its time.
Windows 7. And I would hope for the mighty superhero penguin Linux to save me.
Hm, nobody addressed the fact that Windows 7 is outdated and has known vulnerabilities. The idea of this question was to see whether people would rather be spied on by Microsoft or by unknown strangers.
Spied on in the woods without an internet connection?
I pressed X to doubt so hard that my phone screen cracked.
I wouldn’t care either way because I doubt it’s connected to the internet out in the middle of the woods which is what would really limit what I could and would use a computer for in that situation.
Then again, if it uses Windows 11 it might get hotter and be able to keep me from freezing to death… 🤔
I worked for msft. I evangelized Windows, even through 8, I found the silver lining. 11 can die in a fire.
7
Some low hanging fruit here (lol Apples) but Win 11 for surely my location and situation will be known afar.
Bonus edit: To the Wincopter! A subscriber is away from employ!
I always keep a short length of single mode fiber optic cable with me when I’m hiking. If I get lost, I just bury it, and it less than an hour some idiot will show up in a backhoe and accidentally cut it in half.
Ya got me. Literally peed myself at this
7 fo sho
Not sure it matters. I’ll be drawing a girlfriend in MS Paint, and it hasn’t changed much.
I have a surprise for you: there were big updates to Paint in Windows 11. Most notably AI image generation features. So that may affect your girlfriend-drawing endeavours.
Me: Tries to draw ScarJo.
AI MS Paint: Here’s that sexy picture of Clippy you wanted!
