• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Seriously, anytime people make complaints like these about windows, it just tells me they are either

    1. Tweaking their system in ways far beyond what the OS is designed for (which is fine, but then don’t blame Microsoft when updates break your system)
    2. Doesn’t know how to use a computer
    3. Knows how to use a computer but is willfully ignorant so they can rant at MS and get clicks
    4. Incredibly unlucky and not representative of the general population
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      4 months ago

      Tweaking their system in ways far beyond what the OS is designed for

      That’s the issue: the way microshit is taking windows is not acceptable for an increasing number of people.

      Why would I allow Satya the creep to control my PC that I paid money for.

      Also, why are they putting ads into it.

      Updates rolling back privacy settings, although this stopped now.

      Forced online accounts.

      At what point is it too much for you? I bet over next few years microshit will get to you too lol

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        4 months ago

        While I agree with most of what you’re saying, it’s also stupid to blame Microsoft for breaking your computer if you forcefully uninstall the Windows store, despite the fact that it’s needed for parts of certain updates.

        A lot of the “debloaters” have no fucking idea what they’re actually doing and are uninstalling/disabling critical parts of the OS so the task manager shows less RAM usage (because God forbid you actually use your damn RAM).

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          4 months ago

          Yeah they just need to accept their fate and join Linux.

          At some point, fucking with Windows is note time and you have to be always doing it.

          Linux you have set it up but after that it just works

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      4 months ago

      #1 is by and far the cause I see when people ask me ‘why did thing break?!’

      There’s a lot of ‘Well, I edited the registry and then deleted these two files and installed this 3rd party software so that it looks like it did in Windows XP!’ floating in my circles, which almost entirely correlates to the people who are mad that their install is, yet again, broken/not working as expected/having weird problems.

      Of course, people are doing this because Microsoft can’t stop shitting up Windows in a way that annoys people, and thus leading them to do things that maybe aren’t the best idea.

      So, in summary: it’s a land of contrasts, but stop adding bullshit nobody wants Microsoft.

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          That is what people want out of Windows, it dove off a cliff from there. I’d still be using Linux, but it’d be a harder choice if the alternative was XP instead of Data Harvesting Simulator 11 begging me to subscribe to me own hardware.

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          4 months ago

          The year 2000 was peak human technology. It’s been downhill in every way since, until generative AI - which is f’in amazing. But let’s be real, the future belongs to the bots.

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            4 months ago

            Can confirm. N64 existed before year 2000…but not WWF No Mercy, which came out in 2001. Lets call it 2002 was peak. Pretty sure GTA Vice City was out by then.

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              4 months ago

              Honestly, I’d get on board with just about anytime 2000 to 2010. The enshittification of the internet and social media driven comment culture didn’t start in earnest until smart phones took off.

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      4 months ago

      The thing that usually kills windows is shitty drivers. So people with different hardware can have completely different experiences.