But here is the thing: There were already a million reasons to avoid Microsoft even before their lost weekend with this AI fever dream.
Remove the Microslop and those older reasons remain.
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I also wonder how much of this was spurred by Linux even beginning to come to the mainstream mind and how simple most distros are to just install and run (Bazzite, CachyOS, Linux Mint).
You've always had Linux go around tech circles, forums, enthusiasts, etc. but big YouTube channels out of that circle are talking about it and hardware manufacturers are distributing it in place of Windows in the case of the Steam Deck, and it's just building more and more momentum.
I think it's easy to take for granted how (relatively) mainstream Linux is getting, but if you think today how many people talk about *BSD, that was Linux not even 10 years ago.
*skeptical
Is this going to be another jealous/envious situation? Are we going to lose "skeptic" from our language because no one can be bothered to learn the difference between a skeptic and a cynic?
While I understand your point, in this case I think "cynical" is applicable.
Anything to do with mega corporations (like M$), I assume bad faith and selfish motives from the start.
They have an (unintentional) strategy of alternating good and bad releases. So *if windows 12 comes out and it is somewhat sensible, it will be amazing when compared to win 11, and people will not wait to get off 11 onto 12.
Whereas if 12/came out right after 10, it would be compared to 10 and people would not like it as much.
I wouldn’t call it good and bad. I’d say every other release they have a horrific one to scare people and then they have a bad but better than the other one release.
The data harvesting is just getting to be too much though. That’s in every release.
Messed with Ubuntu maybe a decade ago was the last Linux experience I had until recently replacing win11 with Fedora KDE on my main machine. Honestly feels like a breath of fresh air. Nothing is asking me to sync it to one drive. Everything is snappy and customizable. It’s clean and just feels pleasant to use. Not ever going back.
They made this promise? Lol ok.
That was my reaction when I read about them pulling copilot and such. I think it's probably the reaction of every software nerd.
You guys should see what phone link is up to. Even if you didn't configure it.
Yes. In Windows 12.
It's going to be massively worse in Windows 12. There is no going back for them.