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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)
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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On Windows, there used to be (possibly a third-party application) a desktop widget that had a "turtle", and if you clicked on the widget it would drop a little pixel of food, and the turtle would slowly walk over to it and consume it. I thought that was really cool.