• SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    What a load of shit. Pirating windows was super easy and very common back then. And if you didn’t had internet access there was no way for windows to revoke your key which actually never happened with the usual pirated copies. You are a liar.

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      9 days ago

      I would be a liar if I had known what I was doing

      I am not a liar because I didn’t know what I was doing back then

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        9 days ago

        So you didn’t know what you were doing but installed Linux because that was easier than managing a pirated windows copy 20 years ago. lol I ran game servers under Linux 25 years ago. Linux back then was not easier than managing a pirated windows copy. I would say someone without internet access and problems with pirated windows could’ve never managed Linux 20 years ago.

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          20 years ago it was so easy to pirate windows that the worst thing they would do to you is put a small translucent text in the bottom corner of the screen and say the version was pirated. They would also refuse to ship their bloatware through patches — but would still supply the security updates (the only ones that mattered). Then the geniuses decided to remove desktop background (turning it black). That’s about the time I realized I didn’t want a background anyways because it just made my screen too bright.

          If anything Microsoft encouraged and made it easier to pirate with every release of windows XP, which was the last version I seriously used.