Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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-square204linkfedilinkarrow-up1931arrow-down19
arrow-up1922arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square204linkfedilink
minus-squarewuffah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months 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-23 months 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-up3·3 months agoReminder that they backported the Windows 10 telemetry to Windows 7 as well.
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months 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-up1·3 months agoThe last good Windows was Windows 98
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoFor people with a BSOD fetish? Definitely!
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI’m not. It’s just… why can’t you play with penguins like the other boys?
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoturns out it was a gateway drug to another kind of blue screen, btw:
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThank GNU! You doin daddy proud, son!
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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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