• hauiA
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    5 days ago

    You mean as long as you pay windows tax by buying a new computer regularly and dont ask for privacy, free software, etc. :)

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      5 days ago

      I’ve been running the same heavily customized Windows box for half a decade now. Like “tore critical system components I don’t need out from the install media” level of customized. A good chunk of the “modify windows for privacy” tools shit the bed because parts of what they want to flip switches on for better privacy simply aren’t there on my install.

      No issues with updates, nothing bricked or fucked up even with me definitively using it not as intended.

      The more I progress in my tech career (roughly a decade in now) the more blatant it becomes that the overwhelming majority of issues people have with computers (especially in the modern era) are self inflicted. This is common across all OSes and Distros.

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        I agree that its common across all distros. I disagree on self inflicted. Its as if you didnt bother to teach tour kid to ride a bike and laugh at them for falling.

        We’re a massively diseducated population by now. Friends of mine complain when they have to use a file system instead of buttons to open files and are shocked that making an app instead is expensive.

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      5 days ago

      Unfortunately most people are utter slaves of convenience, they’d gladly suffer 30 seconds of unskippable ads every time they open the start menu rather than re-learn how a different operating system works - doing the latter has a (potentially) massive ROI, but it is quite a big step, and that’s what gets them

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        5 days ago

        Its systemic. You cant fault them for it because it is the majority. That means that on average it is not possible and we need to address this.

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          5 days ago

          Just to be clear: while I’ve seen ads in one form or another in every (non-LTSC) installation of Windows 10 and 11 I’ve ever made, I’m not claiming that Windows 11 actually shows unskippable ads (in video format) when using the start menu yet, that was a hyperbole.

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      5 days ago

      I just retired a 2012 Windows 7 machine that had never received any patches/updates.

      Never crashed, never had issues.

      I’ve run Windows boxes even longer than that.

      Since Win2k, stability improved drastically. XP was another major shift.

      Linux is like running NT4 by comparison (and NT4 was damn stable).