Haven’t used windows in a long time and this was worse than I expected, especially from the perspective of giving the OS to a kid to use.
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Windows 11 really reminds me of ChromeOS.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it was born during a Zoom call during the middle of the pandemic, after some marketing manager in marketing read an article about Chromebooks gaining market share.
I noticed that MSFT is pushing that cur-down browser-focused OS crap again.
But if I wanted a Chromebook, I’d get a bloody Chromebook!
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My father, the retired technician, would immediately go into the settings and start making changes even though he didn’t understand what he was doing and would forget what he had done. I got tired of guessing.
I was amazed that I couldn’t find software to lock him out of making changes. I tried a few, but like a teenager, he found ways around them. So I sat down and with a long list locked him out of installing software, remote access, settings, etc. It took a long time, but I nailed down about 95% the first time, then swept up the last bits later.
Windows has been getting worse for this. If I didn’t have a need to run windows apps for work I’d shift to Linux on my daily driver.
My work, a hospital, spent an entire week trying to purge the bs from a new windows 11 build. Just for a base for new machine roll outs. Whole time, I was make sarcastic little comments about how they backed the wrong horse and needed to switch to Linux.
It’s a shame the hospital didn’t go for Win10 LTSC (supported until 2027 or 2032 if using the IoT version). It’s meant for exactly these type of enterprise situations. It’s literally a debloated Windows and the updates are only security updates. No bloat/cortana/etc, it feels like running Windows 7 again (in a good way).
Disclaimer: I use Linux Mint as my daily driver but Win10 LTSC if I must use Windows.
There was a reason, but I don’t know why.
Windows is just a vehicle for developers to create services on Azure and to push consumers to O365. We have to endure enough advertising in our life already - an OS should be a tool to get work done and not another vector to push ads to the consumer. I put Fedora on our daughter’s laptop and it’s refreshingly boring.
i just installed windows 10 in a vm and basic linux commands work in the terminal
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