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?

When did it not suck exactly?

Maybe win 2000?

XP was the start of the enshitification, I knew I couldn’t stay on windows with that release.

Although after Bill (how can this sell more windows) left and they were very open about being a DATA collection company first, a computer service company second, I thought they might simply offer windows for free.

With all this shit in it of course because that is how you satisfy data collection.

But I guess they figured why kill the revenue stream of windows itself.

Yeah.

Like, im sorry your old fav turned to shit and is shit now, but it is shit now. Let’s look for options that aren’t shit and aren’t turning to shit.windows users:

how DARE you!

I just set my computer to auto-login as root when it boots up. I never have to use sudo!

Microsoft needs to get on this. I would pay money out of my own pocket to be able to upgrade my Windows 11 to hardcore mode at work just so I didn’t have to deal with all of their AI and tracking bullshit.

And actually I know the company I work for would pay to upgrade all of their employees to the same level. Like they’re sitting on millions of dollars of profit to just be able to turn off the bullshit they’re forcing on us.

Is hardcore mode where if the computer crashes it automatically deletes any files you had and resets the OS to a clean slate?