Opinion: Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there’s a problem

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    26 days ago

    Windows 11 isn’t even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.

    I think MS shot itself in the foot by doing the whole “we’ll just iterate on this one forever” pivot to data gathering thing. At least in the good old days of Windows Me they could point at the next refresh as a clean break, even if it wasn’t.

    I ran Windows Me for maybe a year, by the way. Mostly out of morbid curiosity. It wasn’t even that bad, as I remember it.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Windows 11 isn’t even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.

      In terms of spyware and enshittification it sure as Hell is!

      And that’s the measure that matters here: not mistakes, but deliberate abuse of the user.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        26 days ago

        Windows 10 is also a privacy nightmare and also has Edge, One drive and ads.

        Windows 11 has some nice features and you can use Group Policy to clean it up a bit.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        26 days ago

        Speak for yourself. I’d rather take spyware and enshittification than whatever Windows 8 was.

        I can get rid of the spyware and I was never going to use copilot anyway. Vista was Vista all the way through.

        • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          At this point, Windows itself is the Spyware. Forced cloud Accounts, AI Features embedded so deeply into the windows core that you can not longer remove it.

          The only intro get rid of it is installing Linux or buying a mac