* Posts by Retro-Coward

4 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2016

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

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In MacOS you can move the Dock to the left hand edge. I don't know what Microsoft was thinking.

Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired

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Re: Yay! Party time!

Oh jeez, I hadn't thought of it like that. You might well be right - keep him busy!

PC repair chap lets tech support scammer log on to his PC. His Linux PC

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Sell them something.

My game is to interrupt them as quickly as possible with the question, "Never mind that. Do you drive a car? I can save you money on your car insurance."

When they say they don't drive, you can ask them whether their Wife / Friend / Mum / Dad / Brother / Sister etc would like to save money on their car insurance. Eventually, once you've exhausted all avenues, I finish the conversation with, "I'm very sorry. It would seem that I'm not going to be able to help you today."

On numerous occasions, they have THANKED ME! and hung up. That's my win.

No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs

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Re: Finally

It worked for me. I had dabbled with Linux many times, but always slid back to Windows. The WinX nag popups and the ever increasing feeling of battling with windows 8.1 every boot has forced me to look again, and so far, my experience with Ubuntu Mate has been fantastic.