Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWindows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownershipwww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square203linkfedilinkarrow-up1928arrow-down18
arrow-up1920arrow-down1external-linkWindows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownershipwww.windowscentral.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square203linkfedilink
minus-squarewuffah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoIt delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of pirating testing the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·edit-21 month ago the only decent version of Windows Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it’s less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows. Reminder: Win 10 introduced mandatory telemetry (you can only choose between some telemetry and firehose telemetry) a built-in keylogger built-in advertising aggressive nag screens containing dark patterns trying to trick users into “upgrading”
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoReminder that they backported the Windows 10 telemetry to Windows 7 as well.
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYup. That’s what made me ditch Win 7 long before EOL and switch to Linux. Been here for ten years now. Life’s good. 🌱
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThe last good Windows was Windows 98
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoFor people with a BSOD fetish? Definitely!
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI’m not. It’s just… why can’t you play with penguins like the other boys?
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoturns out it was a gateway drug to another kind of blue screen, btw:
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThank GNU! You doin daddy proud, son!
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhat you’re referring to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
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It delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of
piratingtesting the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it’s less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows.
Reminder: Win 10 introduced
Reminder that they backported the Windows 10 telemetry to Windows 7 as well.
Yup. That’s what made me ditch Win 7 long before EOL and switch to Linux. Been here for ten years now. Life’s good. 🌱
The last good Windows was Windows 98
For people with a BSOD fetish? Definitely!
Don’t yuck my yum
I’m not. It’s just… why can’t you play with penguins like the other boys?
turns out it was a gateway drug to another kind of blue screen, btw:
Thank GNU! You doin daddy proud, son!
What you’re referring to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
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