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prospectacle writes about another possible shift from Win XP to Linux:
"With Microsoft ceasing to support Windows XP, the Tamil Nadu state government has advised its departments to switch to Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS Linux.
BOSS Linux is developed by India's "National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software", which is financed by their Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.
Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday March 24 2014, @08:29PM
It took me several hours because A) I decided to try the kool-aid; and B) I had to figure out what to do. So...
1) Don't try to like Metro. It sucks.
2) Install classic shell.
3) Configure it to boot to desktop.
4) Install the programs you like (Irfanview, Vim, etc)
5) Change file associations to use your programs, instead of the apps.
That's it. Be prepared to get hit with a Metro app every once in a while (yesterday I discovered it was still configured to use a Metro app for a .gif file), but it's a few seconds work to fix.