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bucolic_frolic

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2. Best thing I ever did was to ditch Windows

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 04:20 PM

Friday

I'm on my 4th Linux upgrade, it's been really good.

I still have a Win11 machine btu only for portability. Some libraries are not Linux compatible so I bring Windows.

I'm working on a multi OS bootable USB via Ventoy which is like the master framework. Boot to any OS on any PC you like. Save your files and go on to the next one.

There is a whole world beyond American software.

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