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    The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

    6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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    6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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    The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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    • Steven McTowelie@lemm.ee
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      I couldn’t name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate’s mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids

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        Steve Ballmer! Developers developers developers! That’s the other one I know

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        I’m somewhat in the same boat but I remember Mister “Developers Developers Developers” Steve Ballmer who was also immortalized by the “Ballmer Peak” XKCD. https://xkcd.com/323/

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        Gabe Newell?

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          He would be also be a reasonable person to include on an article citing Steam data.

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        Holy shit I remember that article too!

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        I could but that’s because a friend of mine works on the legacy rendering code in Excel. He has some traumatic war stories to share.

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