Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit bordering on addiction
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  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month 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.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      1 month 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.worldEnglish
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        1 month 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

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month 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.