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> Microsoft forced people to install their browser, and other tasteless things. > Windows 95 was also heavily about choice. I recently received a tech support
by Timpy 6y ago
> Microsoft forced people to install their browser, and other tasteless things.
> Windows 95 was also heavily about choice.
I recently received a tech support phone call from my mother because her "computer was showing an error that she only has one drive working, and it's really slow. I need all my drives!" Windows computers are throwing errors now if you don't have OneDrive configured. Tasteless. I'm so sick of this.
I don't want OneDrive, I don't want Teams, I don't want a 3d Objects folder. I don't want my computer to schedule its own restart, I don't want my (supposedly) sleeping computer to randomly play an "error" sound. I don't want my login screen to default to PIN instead of passwords. A young version of me considered Microsoft superior because unlike Apple, I felt like I could make choices about my environment. I just gave my mom a laptop with Linux Mint installed, I changed all of the mint icons to windows icons, I renamed Libre office programs to their Microsoft office counterparts. We'll see how this experiment goes.
- fartcannon 6y agoAs someone who did that for my mum, it will go reassuringly fine until she tries to do something not permitted like watch CraveTV. Or install something her friends have. But hang in there man, youre fighting the good fight! I had my mum and dad on Linux from 2005-2014 when a gift from my sister (garmin running watch) exposed my lie!
- progval 6y ago> I don't want my computer to schedule its own restart I understand it's annoying, but as someone who deals with spam, I prefer that Microsoft forces people to apply security upgrades on their home computers.
- Timpy 6y agoIt's possible to keep security up to date without imposing the tasteless crap I've non-exhaustively listed. I would save time and pain if the only problem Microsoft gave me was that I had to manually run security updates.