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Windows aint that bad? But then, I'm occasionally reminded that if you don't have a corporate IT dept. jealously vetting every update, and instead use the shivers Super Happy Consumer Pachinko Edition Windows, things are very different.

Let me preface by saying that unlike many others here, I'm using windows on purpose, on my main machine, because I like it, and that since W95. And I'm still using it right now. I like how it's in a sort of spot between great customized but closed down experience of OSX, and completely open but very messy even today of Linux. But for a long time, Windows struggled with some broken internals and screwed up stuff, driv…

Microsoft is just a broken company. Their people really think they are making great stuff when in reality they're just coasting on their installed base. Nobody picks Microsoft because they're the best. They pick it because they're not bad enough to consider something else.

Implementing ms solutions is always a drag. They're always evangelizing so much and they have to because their stuff is not naturally appealing to users. But personally I really hate that fakeness.

Re: Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts

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As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.

Why do you even bother running Windows with this crap going on ?

Malware kernel mode anti cheats and draconian DRM from hostile developers
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