Linux is the only way to actually get out from under the thumb of Microsoft

Aside from macos, bsd, ChromeOS, android, iOS, and templeos, sure.

it worked out for the French way back when

They were a Republic for like 2-4 years before Napoleon declared himself emperor

Fix Bush’s mess? He doubled down on all of the worst excesses of Bush’s mess. Ramped up drone strikes, invaded more countries, renewed the patriot act, violated the war powers act by staying in Syria too long, tried to arrest Snowden. 2 more terms of bush would have looked identical.

I mention it every time I’m in the jury selection process to ensure I never have to do jury duty

Yeah, he got there because he’s a really good liar. Just like every other president.

This meme is a lie. The first appearance of Mario was donkey kong in 1981.

Donkey Kong came out in 1981. Mario is 44.

Close. We natives pronounce it ‘kuh ned eh kit’

“Oh damn, it’s a gun free zone. Guess I can’t assassinate this podcaster after all”

I can’t accept that he actually did that because he was never tried by his peers and is therefore innocent in the eyes of the law. The whole point of the 5th amendment is we’re not supposed to just accept the governments pinky swear that someone is guilty. They’re meant to prove it, on the record.

We have a 5th amendment or we don’t. Bush and Obama’s excesses ratcheded up executive power and made trump possible. Now imagine trump shrugging his shoulders and saying “terrorist. very bad.” as he drone strikes American citizens and thank Obama for setting the precedent.

Add Obama to the pile. I don’t think he had anything to do with Epstein but I’m sick of hearing what a great president he was after he extrajudicially ordered the drone assassination of an American citizen.

Firefox isn’t chromium

The USPS has been self funded for quite some time

I remember drilling out the the write protect hole so I could reuse them. Floppies were expensive and I was broke as a teenager, I loved aol disks.

France has been protecting Roman Polanski from consequences for drugging and raping a child for like 60 years. Macron is just keeping tradition alive.

Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that’s only available for Windows. Companies and governments don’t consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider “what do I need to run this product” and “what’s the TCO”. Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.

Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.

The civil lawsuit nearly died in 2016, when President Barack Obama vetoed legislation to carve out an exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign governments and permit the families to sue the Saudi kingdom. Congress overrode that veto, however, allowing the suit to go forward.

Add this to the list of horrifically evil shit Obama did

VMs aren’t emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft’s.

The OS of the bare metal host shouldn’t matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you’d be using azure to begin with.