Comment on The worst timeline
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoEven 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).
Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were “for parts only” where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.
It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s way more profitable to audit corporations than fight Eastern European crackers and Asian “distributors”
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Hannah Montana OS keeping this proud tradition going singlehandedly ✊
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
That’s not related only to windows themes. It’s an overall design shift. Cars, phones, businesses, PC parts, everything has been shifting towards this adult, boring, sleek, corporate, uniform, grey look.