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  • Win XP was peak computing for the masses, and most didn’t have a clue!
    by metadat
  • > Windows is activated with a digital license. The parody watermark will remain because it is part of the joke.

    Thank you for a good laugh

    by doawoo
  • I can feel my blood pressure raising. Very accurate to the Windows experience.
    by throooooo
  • This is not realistic; the start menu opens way too quickly.
    by bradfitz
  • It must be hard for Windows users to imagine that on Linux there are is no activation, no Microsoft account, no cloud backup, and no pop-up requesting that you install crapware when you plug in a peripheral.[0] You also own your disk encryption keys and are not assigned an identifier that can be used against you.[1]

    [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

    [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsof...

    by drnick1
  • It’s too snappy and responsive, real windows I gotta wait with the spinning blue ring thing for a few seconds after clicking ‘x’ on the notifications. That is when they’re generous enough to give an ‘x’ and not force the user through some onboarding flow with no easy way to opt out
    by jedbrooke
  • This is insanely good and mimics my personal experience of Windows these days. I literally say "pop-up! pop-up! pop-up!" out loud during a normal workday where one pop-up or prompt is rapidly replaced by another. Same app or different, doesn't matter, there's always something trying to grab attention on a Windows desktop unless you configure the hell out of it (and even that is no longer enough).

    My favorite "joke" from this site:

    > Scan complete: 1 threat found — ChromeSetup.exe

    FWIW, I switched to Fedora in January and have no plans to look back. Only $dayjob relies on Windows anymore.

    by accrual
  • I can tell this is fake from the fact the explorer context menu and the start menu open in under 2 seconds (on a top end Ryzen CPU, nonetheless).
    by paavohtl

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