The day Windows died

I’m not a big fan of these features and i turn them off right away. MS is going to where the consumers are. anyone under 30 will expect this content . imagine a 20 year old using windows 2k and the only real apps are notepad and ms paint .

We give companies too much blame for providing consumers what they want.

MS could do a better job with transparency and control of these features. But i don’t believe the blame is being put in the right place .

also the hyperbole is too much

Having never lived in a Windows world I had no idea what life was like on the other side.

So many times on HN I read about how MacOS is bad for the user, locked down, rubbish etc etc.

But if this article is true then Windows 11 is absolutely insane. That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. Not poor documentation. Not first party apps.

While those of us who use Apple’s OS fear for the worst, those in Windows appear to be receiving it.

(But I definitely agree that news apps have no place on a desktop and I have had very bad news headlines pop up on my kids screens. Please Apple, turn this stupid default off, or give us an option at install time).

> Some people recommended tools to me which can be used to switch most of those things off. But honestly: How do you trust a system (or its manufacturer) if you can't even know if those settings, which you deliberately chose, persist?

No doubt you've all noticed how your carefully crafted config gets trashed by routine window's updates %#%$$#%#! If you use windows, you're pushing against a company that 1) you've given complete control of your computer, and 2) has very different intentions and priorities to you.

Windows 11 start menu search is slowest shit i've ever seen

I can't stand when I type app name (e.g paint or vs) and it appears but click needs like 5-10 sec to be registered

what the hell

It worked perfectly fine on Win10 on the same hardware (my OS has been updated recently either automatically or by company).

I'd call Windows 11 pretty OK once you tweak one or two things in register settings, maybe the lack of right click menu on task bar sucks (e.g show desktop), but search being slow is ridiculous, it should be blazingly fast

I use 10, but only as essentially a glorified console. Time for work? Time to boot into the Linux partition.

I look vaguely fondly back on XP, 98, and 95… but at least, XP was pretty bad with frequent crashes. And of course the idea of security was added on afterwards, which was not really successful and kind of a dumb idea.

Anyway I think the death-date of Windows is essentially a personal thing. It is the first day you look at it with at all a critical eye.