I recently bought my wife a new laptop. After 10 minutes of arguing with a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to rage quit for my own mental health: 0. There we

I recently bought my wife a new laptop. After 10 minutes of arguing with a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to rage quit for my own mental health: 0. There were a thousand different prompts nagging me to allow their tracking and ads (and some options amounted to either “yes to everything” or “yes to most things” with no “don’t fucking track me” option in sight. 1. Followed by Microsoft forcing my to tie my local user account to my Microsoft account. Then forcing me to enter the 30 character password that I usually just paste from my password manager for online accounts. 2. Then being greater by spamware that had an X button which literally did Jack shit. 3. And a chaotic task menu with 13 different control panels. I handed the machine to my wife and told her I can’t be her desktop support guy for this thing because there was a high risk of me throwing the laptop out the window in a rage (maybe that’s why it’s called “Windows”?) I honestly think the only reason people think they like Windows is down to Stockholm syndrome.