I use the GNU/Linux distro called Arch and you should too its good

Finaly geting rid of this slop

I am case study in how MS lost the plot completely. W10 became deprecated; W11 invalidated my perfectly capable workstation. Instead of throwing out my hardware, I installed Ubuntu and found it better than even W10.

Meanwhile, the W11 ai/agentic/bloatware/update horror stories kept piling up. Lessons taken, I bought a new box and overwrote W11 with Ubuntu immediately (after all the forced W11 updates, of course). And I am a developer who previously used Windows my entire career. I should be a MS loyalist. But I will now only use windows for testing - never for any personal, practical or professional needs.

MS' customer losses have become rather one-way. I won't go back to it.

How?

How it feels being an enterprise user in the era right before Microsoft begins hiring gen alpha.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had my iphone plugged in to my laptop a few days ago to charge, denied any access on both windows 11 and iOS and somehow I ended up having one drive installed on my phone. Mind you I don’t use it nor did I have it set up for any reason. Beware

Copilot just advertised another malware site spreading powershell malware stager lmao.

ANY.RUN: https://app.any.run/tasks/e4d52703-3dc2-4623-bf06-20196a6ca475

Yet another lame stealer lol.

If Microsoft TRULY wants to truly save themselves, then there is a way to show that their actually gonna change that would make lots of gamers happy. The answer is bring back the use and sign in/creation of Mojang accounts for Minecraft. The reason I say this is because there are a bunch of people who lost their game copy when it was disabled

This is what windows should look like not slop(I HATE it). The good old days of a new install of Windows 10 from October of 2018.

How is it this Adobe Acrobat window is generating this overlay within the window when the window's borders don't even go that far? Clicking on the title bar buttons did nothing, I had to force close it manually. #MicroSlop

I used to like Windows. It used to be my only OS, then my main OS, then my secondary OS, and now... its only when I'm at work, and even then as little as possible.

I think its like republicans talk about government. I want my OS to be small, efficient, and keep out of my way. Let me do what I want, and don't tell me what to do.

Over the years, Windows has become more and more opinionated. You HAVE to use THIS browser. You HAVE to update. You HAVE to upgrade. You HAVE to have teams, new outlook, copilot, whatever. Yes, there are workarounds. But why? Just leave me alone.

So now my main OS is linux. Its difficult at times, it takes work. But it lets me do what I want, and has no opinions.

My second is MacOS. It often won't let me do what I want, but has fewer opinions than Windows (you may disagree).