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About dealing with Microsoft crap. You customize Windows to your liking and move on. It's certainly not "on a daily basis" as suggested by OP. You don't have to
by grujicd 5y ago
About dealing with Microsoft crap. You customize Windows to your liking and move on. It's certainly not "on a daily basis" as suggested by OP. You don't have to keep anything as suggested by Microsoft. Oh, and you don't upgrade to newer Windows on existing PC until extended support runs out :)
If you don't like start menu changes, you install something like Classic Shell (I don't know whether it runs on Win 11 though).
If you don't like Explorer, you use something like TotalCommander. I've been using this fantastic software since mid 90-ties, crazy!
Btw. I'm tied to .Net and Visual Studio and can't change platforms. But even if I had a choice I probably wouldn't switch. I used Mac and Linux a bit and still prefer Windows. Probably old dog/new tricks kind of situation. Yes, Windows throws curve balls here and there, but you can usually work around them.
- nrabulinski 5y agoYou can work around everything if you want to. The problem is, I shouldn’t have to work around stuff like this, the OS should compliment my PC work and be out of my way, not work actively against me and try to outsmart me.
- grujicd 5y agoSure, that would be ideal, but I don't have a feeling that Windows gets in my way. If anything, it's that drivers or app updates make 90% of sys-admin work for users, not Windows itself. Yes, there are cases when Windows update creates havoc but it's not a constant struggle. I also saw number of complaints about Mac OS in recent years. And constant cases of driver/sound/sleep issues with Linux desktops. And still, people use them and are happy. It's not like Windows is the only OS with issues you have to work around.
- aliswe 5y agoNot making any judgement on this reply, I just like to note that this is a very common reply to Linux criticism as well.