Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
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Linux has you sudo all the time so that’s not weird.
If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong
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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.
“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?
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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.
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“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?
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
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If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong
If you aren’t trying new packages and distros are you even Linuxing?
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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.
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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.
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!
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If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong
I just set my computer to auto-login as root when it boots up. I never have to use sudo!
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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.
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Is hardcore mode where if the computer crashes it automatically deletes any files you had and resets the OS to a clean slate?
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Is hardcore mode where if the computer crashes it automatically deletes any files you had and resets the OS to a clean slate?
Installing your OS and data on a RAM disk
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“Hardcore mode”. Its really not as hard as it seems to people.
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“Hardcore mode”. Its really not as hard as it seems to people.
Would the person employing this mode called a superuser?
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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.
Windows 7 was legitimately decent. I think it was also the automated upgrade to Windows 8 that was my red line and got me to successfully switch to Linux.
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If you aren’t trying new packages and distros are you even Linuxing?
As a Silverblue-based distro user, I don’t need root to do any of that.
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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
Was it copied from an old hard drive?
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Windows sucks now? Like there was a time it didn’t?
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Was it copied from an old hard drive?
It was an old download but it’s weird because everything else in the folder deleted except that single file.
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It was an old download but it’s weird because everything else in the folder deleted except that single file.
I have had issues when it was copied from an old hard drive where the files were downloaded by another account name. Windows knows the account IDs don’t match so your permissions are limited. If you don’t like command line you can often go into properties , security, advanced, then use take ownership option, or select user name and check the full control option
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Is hardcore mode where if the computer crashes it automatically deletes any files you had and resets the OS to a clean slate?
Prefer my roguelite os, I can only install updates every time I nuke my system.
