ElectricMachman

You can tell it to use the system version of Wine

Even without that, there was still full support for classic 95-style themes, even if they were a bit of a pfaff to put together.

If you have to use Windows and you’re power-userish enough to go setting up static IPs, it might be worth learning a bit of PowerShell. You can do everything with it!

…but still nicer than 11, right?

Use Windows XP to annoy both Linux users and those guys who get a serious bee in their bonnet about EOL software

MS no longer produces an official Teams binary for Linux. (Correct me if they’ve started doing so again)

It does. Last time I did it, though, it required a couple of files to get going. Have a look here for info: http://fvonline-db.bplaced.net/

I was 7 when I first properly used Linux. My dad somehow found a prebuilt which came with SuSE - I assume version 7 or thereabouts. It didn’t last long, sadly, before we switched over to Windows XP.

Then at age 14/15, I ran Ubuntu 10 as my daily driver on my netbook. Then #! for a bit.

Used Windows 7 and 10 until… I guess age 26/27 since that’s what we’re doing, when I switched to Debian full-time. (Via MX-Linux, which didn’t quite work out)

Looks a bit like Soundtracker et al.

[Trinity Desktop Environment] (https://www.trinitydesktop.org/) is really cool - a bit more XP-era, mid-2000s style, though.

I’m not sure I do, please can you explain?

I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me.

Could that day be today?

Great, but small Android phones are still few and far between. The Jelly Star is a notable exception, but those devices don’t seem to get much in the way of long-term support

VMware offers their Workstation hypervisor for free now. I’m able to run Windows 10 surprisingly well using that, and use relatively intensive software like Affinity Designer without any noticeable issues.

Someone broke it down here: https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/

I think it was prior to version 2, but these days it’s based on Sid - https://vanillaos.org/nerd-info

Yes, it’s called VanillaOS! https://vanillaos.org/

Aren’t the Templars still kicking about? Or is that just in the conspiracy theories?

Brooklyn Nine-Nine did an entire episode lampshading this whole thing. (S06E14 for the curious)