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Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Pop! OS is great. I’ve been using it for about a week now. Very friendly distro for us Windows victims.

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    18 minutes video about how windows is bad, posted to literally the biggest linux circlejerk forum of the interwebs. Oh a misleading ad trying to sell the same thing as haveibeenpwned, classic.

    Nowadays if someone is annoyed by these things can switch to Linux, nearly all games work ootb, hardware acceleration and drm is also working in browsers. For a home user, competitive gaming is the only thing which is not on par with windows.

    For company environments where they use software which is windows only, group policy is there, sysadmins can lock down computers that it basically looks like a kiosk with only the few programs the employee need, no notifications, no ai bullshit, these annoyances only affect home users.

  • t00l@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Windows 2000 Professional was the first good Windows OS that I can remember. XP and 7 were also quite decent overall.

    Around 2008 everything changed. This is when Prism was ramped up, and Microsoft’s new mission was to use MSE and telemetry to spy on the world. It was around this time Windows 8 rolled out with spyware and Windows 7 got “security” updates that forced telemetry into it as well.

    Information is power, and the general population has no chance of living in a free and fair society until it cleans house in the private and public sectors.

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I agree. I switched to Linux full time a few months ago and there are several things just easier than windows.

      Installing the OS was super simple, I didn’t have to turn off 10 settings that it wanted to sell my info, no keys to type in, no registration or spying, no candy crush and 20 other unwanted programs. I have to customize windows so much to my liking and then an update takes it away.

      I just wish Elgato products had Linux support. I have emailed them a few times to suggest it. Maybe when 10% Linux share or 15%… I’m waiting.

      During the past few months I now have myself, my wife, my uncle, and my dad on Linux!!!

  • Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yeah I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux years ago, Have to keep supporting closed OSes at work with our software and with each release they are just getting worse and worse, while GNU/Linux just keeps getting better.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You are like 10 years late to discover this, but sure… Of course you can escape Microsoft. They are very easy to avoid.

    Linux is amazing. Just a hint…

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oh, you absolutely can escape them. I hacent used windows except for work in years and even then my boss is okay with ne using linux as long as i get the work done