To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, including security updates, forcing people to buy new hardware or live with the risks. It’s disabling workarounds that let you set up Windows 11 with a local account or with older hardware. It’s turning Xboxes into PCs and PCs into upsells for its other businesses. Just this week, the company announced that it’s putting AI agents in the taskbar to turn Windows into a “canvas for AI.” I do not think Windows is going to be a better operating system in a year, so it feels like a good time to try Linux again.
Dawg I was trying to WRITE AN EMAIL at work today and between the auto-correction bullshit (don’t fucking correct me), and the fact that when I try to select some piece of text to cut and paste Outook is like no, you didn’t intend to click where you fucking clicked, let me rope in a whole extra word or exclude a whole extra word for you I was literally screaming at the computer. I had to explain myself. Boomer CNC programmer agreed with me.
But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low.
This is my favorite part of Linux! Every update is actually bringing useful features. The worst updates now are the ones that are just boring because they focus on bugs or kernel updates.
Once Cortana started invading that was when I started jumping back to Linux more often again. Now I almost never boot windows at all anymore except in the rarest of cases where a game just won’t install on linux, but even then it’s not enough to get me to actually use windows anymore. I was playing battlefield for a bit which pretty much requires windows and then somehow even that stopped working so that’s pretty much the end of windows for me.
I do need to comb through my files and things and make sure I have what I need and then I think I’m just gonna nuke that windows drive.
I’m at the point where if I touch my C:\ drive again I’m gonna disconnect the internet before I boot it 🤢
Probably just gonna copy and backup my files and nuke it, yeah
I’ve run Simplewall on windows for the past 5+ years at least. It lets you block any/all outbound connections and you can allow them on a case-by-case basis, temporarily or permanently. It can auto-block a lot of the telemetry crap but knowing microsoft i’m sure they can get around a lot of it if they want to. Lots of spying capabilities are in-built into the processor and motherboards these days too.
Atta boy
