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Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
That was 2001.
"Hohndel [sic] reckons the current trend toward the open source model has only one conclusion: that Linux will become as prevalent as Windows on the desktop within the next two to three years." -- SuSE's Dirk Hohndel talking with ZDNet, 2000
Because SOMEONE thought complete privacy rape is worth "when did i tell my friend about that dune movie?"
completely against everyone's will: absolute tracking
So now the hackers dont even have to do any real work in identifying juicy targets... just hack something, and now built in automated queries to the "ai search" will find everything good without the slightest targeted effort any more
Puhlease… just use shutup10 and some debloating script easily found on GitHub. It’s mostly harmless. And it could be a fun weekend project to install a Rufus tampered Win11 ISO. And when WU reenables some sort of privacy and/or advertising wrecking feature you run shutup10 again which will tell you which changes MS decided to make on your behalf so you can toggle them back again. Finally, if you can spare some comput…
Puhlease… just use shutup10 and some debloating script easily found on GitHub. It’s mostly harmless. And it could be a fun weekend project to install a Rufus tampered Win11 ISO. And when WU reenables some sort of privacy and/or advertising wrecking feature you run shutup10 again which will tell you which changes MS decided to make on your behalf so you can toggle them back again. Finally, if you can spare some comput…
I was never some Unix snob, up until Win 7 I was a happy camper. Today I would not accept a job that would force me to work on Win machine.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man. I remember people saying the same thing about Windows for Workgroups 3.11, before they eventually moved into the Windows 95/98 era, abandoned Windows (or computing in general) altogether, or died or something. Then, the same thing happened with Windows 98SE. And Windows 2000. And Windows XP. And...
Those were actual upgrades, though. According to many, Windows UI/UX peaked in the Win2k/XP/Win7 era. Among those, significant improvements: memory management, new/more stable drivers, 64-bit support, better use of multi-core cpu's, etc. But since then: increased telem.. ehm, spying. Pushing ads everywhere. Mostly pointless UI overhauls again & again for little end-user benefit. If any. It's sad that giants like MS s…
I once tried to convince them that Microsoft should 'do an Apple' by using Linux under the hood the same way that Apple used BSD under the hood.
That would free up a lot of the programming workload of Windows by putting it onto the Linux community, and allow Microsoft to concentrate on the Windows Desktop alone, the same way that Apple concentrated on the Apple Desktop while leaving BSD to the BSDers.
I still believe this would be a win-win for Microsoft and its users alike.
However, Microsoft has always been about the Benjamins, and not about good things for its users.
Windows XP is still their best version.
Also, Windows XP sucked. Windows XP SP2, OTOH…
It could also be hordes of legacy win7 systems that are getting upgraded to win10 for insurance reasons
RE: any arguments about ads and such... I don't see what's an ad? I disable copilot in my taskbar. It takes all of 10 seconds to remove the LinkedIn and other crappy shortcut (just shortcut, not full software mind you) from my start menu the one time a year (at best) I reinstall Windows. Yeah, there's OneDrive, but you can uninstall it unlike something similar on another platform like iCloud. And you know what? I can run applications from 25 years ago with practically no issue.
I like Windows 11. Windows 10 feels old in comparison, especially with many system settings living in Control Panel. I use a dev drive, I like my dark mode notepad and taskman, I love having a modern Terminal and winget, and frnakly I pay for Microsoft 365 because it's a pretty good value for the 5 other family members I've got on it. RE: any arguments about ads and such... I don't see what's an ad? I disable copilot…