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		megous 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to... Not used does not mean not usable. Primary school aged children used MS-DOS without any documentation in 1990's. Pretty sure randomly selected people would be able to use modern Linux distro, when pre-installed just like windows are.

WarmWash 47 days ago [4 more]

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megous 47 days ago | | [–]

No I'm just telling you people are not as stupid as everyone assumes.

pocksuppet 45 days ago | | | [–]

They are not stupid, but they also don't have time to learn all this complicated stuff. There's some learned helplessness in there as well.

hparadiz 47 days ago | | [–]

Folks like you need to just install Linux and use it.

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