That video came up in my youtube recommendations last night, and I watched it. Pretty good, although if you’ve used Windows in the past ten years there aren’t going to be any real surprises in there. It sucks for all the reasons people usually complain about, and it’s all getting worse lately.

This is the YouTube video.

Last night I had to go into powershell to delete an mp3 because for some reason I couldn’t just right click and delete because I needed admin permission. I built you I’m not an admin I’m god

i had that, but with a font file. so dumb.

Linux has you sudo all the time so that’s not weird.

Shit headline. The correct one is “Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows sucks ‘now’.”

Indeed, it’s 100% about respecting the user. Windows does not.

Yeah not sure that one holds up. I’m happily on Linux now, but permissions are something that often creep up and I need to sudo often.

It might be roundabout weird because using Windows you expect any request performed by the user (except perhaps modifying system32) to be accepted without questioning.

Linux (with a few exceptions) gives the user the expectation that the reason they need sudo is that it is the safety glass confirmation around the potential self-destruct button (even if sometimes needed for mundane things)

The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don’t like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn’t stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.

He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, “because they can’t just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees.” Cool, I’d rather stick to linux, thanks.

I am less sympathetic about it. He says it’s a love letter wrapped in a complaint, essentially saying ‘Windows is shitty because of all the enshitification they’ve done’, yeah bud, we know.

Though, the central reason for everything should be the most important part: capitalism.

Now? It’s sucked for a very long time.

If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong

“because they can’t just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees.”

Now thid is clearly bullshit. What makes Windows sales again, barely 1/5 of the company’s cloud business?

There was an article on a tech news site recently about how to unshittify windows. Just like 4 pages of stuff to turn off and uninstall.

People in the comments unsurprisingly were like “Linux is free and getting better all the time”. People were mad. So mad.

Well Windows sales might, but that’s why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware

If you aren’t trying new packages and distros are you even Linuxing?