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50 points

I mean, Windows 10 is okay, but man have MS really gotten shitty in the last few years.

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29 points

Fully agree. Windows is trash spyware now that doesn’t respect user choice.

I was really commenting more on the meme itself.

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17 points

For sure. Man I miss Windows 7, that was the best. No crap, updates just worked. Was nice.

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It was the inverse for me. Windows 7 was always a nightmare to set up drivers, it was common to manually download the wifi drivers from the laptop’s brand website. I groaned whenever someone asked me to help set up their PC.

Windows 10 just works out of the box. The only downside for me is aesthetics, I always preferred Aero.

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8 points

How about that XP though? It was pretty excellent in its day.

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24 points

Yeah, it’s cyclical. They’re re-entering their shithead phase.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. The got smacked with those EU antitrust lawsuits and they reset back to Embrace, and started participating in open-source again. Then they started extending by doing shit like buying GitHub and adding even more cool shit to it. Now they’re entering in extinguish phase where they’re doing shit like making it difficult to change default browser, and integrating all their services together without the ability to integrate 3rd parties.

They’ll (hopefully) get smacked with another EU antitrust lawsuit and reset soon.

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8 points

Yeah, I really would like them to go back to being the cool weird uncle, not the cousin everyone is forced to play with at family gatherings.

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It’s legal and user pushback - and it’s a battle I’m bored of fighting. I just use Linux, and find it simpler. With Windows, it’s ads, forced updates, ‘upgrades’ that re-enable ‘features’ i never wanted, a billion background services, most of which I don’t need - and more.

Fuck the battle to keep shit from being shoved down my throat.

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I still game a fair bit, and although gaming on Linux has come a long way, I unfortunately still find its not where I want it to be, yet.

Hoping that the popularity of the Steam deck fixes that, although idk if AAA games are really targeting it

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15 points

I’m literally going to use windows 10 until it completely stops getting updated, by that point hopefully someone will invent a Linux distro that doesn’t irritate me

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13 points

Have you tried mint? Its basically Linux windows but breaks less

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8 points

I have tried mint, I mostly did like it, but there were just some small things that really got on my nerves. The fact that middle clicking a webpage did nothing was unbearable, that’s how I scroll all the time

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9 points

In the last few years? You might want to read up on them

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