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Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vacation to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 14, 2025
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As reported in How-To-Geek, some brave/foolish soul convinced his macOS-loving partner to abandon her sleek, functional ecosystem for the digital equivalent of assembling IKEA furniture blindfolded — aka Linux.

The price tag for getting her to go along with this masochistic fantasy? A luxury cruise. Forcing someone to learn termina…

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