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Discussion on: How I automate my OS 💻

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Ian Pride • Edited

This is a nice article, but the title can seem misleading to some. When I think of automating an OS I think Shell/Python/AutoKey in Linux and AuotHotkey/AutoIt/Selenium and just about any other language in Windows.

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Julian Iaquinandi • Edited

Hi Ian. Thanks for commenting and your feedback! Funnily enough, my next post is about using AutohotKey and Bash 🤣 I'm a massive fan of both. It's a tricky one (for me anyway, second ever post 😜) maybe "How I automate my OS installs" is more fitting but I'm not sure.

edit Also bonus points for being the first person to comment on one of my posts 🎉🎉🎉

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Ian Pride

You're welcome. I just finished my first post on AHK here last night, but I've been reading articles here for a little while now. Love this place.

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Julian Iaquinandi • Edited

I'm a long time lurker and LOVE this community! I also love AHK, use it for all sorts and have a program that lets your create your own custom quick chat messages for a game called Rocket League. Got an email the other day and it cost some poor guy 3 of his steam accounts! (Some games class it as macros as cheating). So if you play games on your dev machine be careful!

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Ian Pride

I only cheat in single player games and only because I don't have time to fully play through all the thousands of games I want to play lol. The fact that people use it a lot for cheating is one of the reasons it has a bad name. It's more than a game cheating tool; far more.