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Man, this is genuinely painful to watch unfold... Yeah, yeah, Linux, I know, already started migrating, but let your feelings speak for a second, sib!
Think back to how much joy and sheer functionality Windows used to encompass. Even Vista, I swear! It was a poorly optimised mess bloated to hell and back with overlapping features, but it was bursting with a genuine desire to innovate. I honestly don't remember ever having as bad a time with Vista as I do with 10, even when I used to run it on an overheating MSI.
Not to mention XP and 7, which were, I dare say, the best operating systems I've ever used, almost interchangeably if we go for XP SP3 with more unofficial tweaks. I'm not trying to diminish the improvements brought on by 8 and 10, they did have some much needed upgrades for vital features and functionalities, that's undeniable. But everything good came wrapped up (or, rather, jumbled up like 10 sets of wired earbuds you just found in a pocket of the coat you pulled out of the washing machine) with sooo much intrusive crap, that it defeats the purpose...
Gotta grieve that shit...
I'd been a Windows user for around 30 years and I'd probably qualify as a fanboy. I'm sure I hit all seven stages of grief to some extent over Windows' enshittification.
But switching to Linux has given me all the good feelings about my computer. So I'm good now.
Switching from Windows to Linux about 25 years or so ago was when I finally realized that computers actually behave in deterministic ways so no, Windows was never really a joy to use.
Yeah like XP was way better than windows now, and 7 was mostly fine in retrospect, but even as a gamer who always used windows, but had experimented with linux, I always knew windows was shit even back in the XP days. I remember doing so much debloating and random troubleshooting.
And most of the troubleshooting was just stuff like "reboot, reinstall, remove and re-add printer,..." which really does nothing to the actual issue and just fights symptoms.
This is how I mourn https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma/
Ho-ly, the dedication.
ik, wackyideas is truly an artist.
omg that's actually beautiful, will be installing later
Uuu, shiny! Thank you!
You're welcome!