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View Poll Results: Did you remove the MS Windows sticker of your Computer/PC/Notebook?
Yes 11 78.57%
No 3 21.43%
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Old 07-07-2017, 10:09 AM   #16
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I left the sticker on my laptop, because I like the way it now claims to be "designed for Windows XP" and "powered by Debian," but my default position is to remove such stickers along with the software they advertise.

I wish I could find the post I read years ago (likely on another site) by someone who'd peeled off a Windows sticker from a computer and stuck it to hir toilet - if I remember right, the toilet broke a fortnight later.
 
Old 07-07-2017, 11:05 AM   #17
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Edit\add: have not got a Tux sticker for the "start key" yet...

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Old 07-07-2017, 12:04 PM   #18
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Edit\add: have not got a Tux sticker for the "start key" yet...
SystemD inside I still got the Debian sticker on my machine... this is so ugly, gonna rip it off this sticker.
Gotta find nicer sticker.

On which website could you buy the GNU inside?
Maybe too also on this website: http://www.unixstickers.com/stickers...-badge-sticker
 
Old 07-07-2017, 12:56 PM   #19
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Mine's from the Free Software Foundation... looks like your link has the Tux key sticker I've seen before tho not the exact one.
 
Old 07-07-2017, 04:32 PM   #20
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Every time I've bought a Windows machine, I always bought a retail copy of Windows at the same time. Removed the sticker from the machine, then wiped the disk drive clean and reinstalled from the retail copy. I never trust, and never use, an "OEM" license.
 
  


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