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Ya all got an obsession with Windows, like it lives rent-free in your heads.
Yeah why are people obsessed with talking about the world's most popular consumer operating system that is, especially recently, consistently getting worse?
I have to use it at work. So I bash it all I can. Its the only solace I get when onedrive keeps advertising on my desktop, AI pops up in Excel, and outlook got much worse (slow AND interface is convoluted now).
Plus my computer stopped working last week and had to get a new one cause of the update....on the day of a major deployment. You cant make this stuff up. Its not just in my head, its every interaction at work.
You know? I don't even think about Windows since I started using Linux as my main desktop OS almost 2 decades ago. Even while I was using for the sole reason of playing games, I wasn't really thinking about it, because all I did was launch the games I wanted to play. Barely ever even opened Explorer ffs.
Nowadays in the glory wake of Proton, it never crossed my mind unless I see posts like this, or my friends are having issues with their computers and they're trying to troubleshoot Windows (lol).
It getting increasingly belligerent trying to get me to switch to a Microsoft account over the last decade was by itself enough to make me furious.
Did you switch to Linux yet? If so, welcome to the family!
Oh yes. Like you I only used it on my gaming rig, and 2 years ago switched to Linux even for that
Glad to have you on board!