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> I still don't understand why Windows 11 exists in the first place. For me Windows 11 helped to make decision to finally switch to Linux. I always have been a
by orphea 4y ago
> I still don't understand why Windows 11 exists in the first place.
For me Windows 11 helped to make decision to finally switch to Linux. I always have been a Windows user, since Windows 95.
Everything has to end some time, I guess.
- gralx 4y agoFor me it was Windows 10 forcing itself onto user machines for months after launch, even permanently destroying user data to do so.¹ Oh, and the 260 character NTFS path limit, which bit me in surprising ways (MS published a reg hack to get around this on Windows 10², and I used rsync on MSYS2 to recover inaccessible data on Windows 7). I had been optimistic about W10 until then. ¹https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/27/12046738/microsoft-pays-10k-over-windows-10-auto-update https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/27/12046738/microsoft-pays-1... ²https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximu...