As a longtime user of Windows, it was my first choice when preparing the first computer for my son. But that didn't work out as expected.
  • _ed@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      @maegul @const_void The link for those following along on Mastodon: https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died?ref=birchtree.me

      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!

    • Eric Vey@lor.sh
      2·
      2 years ago

      @maegul @const_void

      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.

  • butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com
    71·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.