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Wish I could upvote this a hundred times. Once upon a time updates were something I'd get excited for. Now it's a dread of what will break next, what new adve
by rkagerer 4y ago
Wish I could upvote this a hundred times.
Once upon a time updates were something I'd get excited for. Now it's a dread of what will break next, what new advertising will assault my eyeballs and waste my attention, and what telemetry will subvert my privacy or deteriorate my control over my device.
This is why I've "just said no" to Windows ≥ 10. I really want it, but these anti-features need a reliable off switch.
- jbstack 4y agoTo be fair, most of those are uniquely Windows problems. If you pick a halfway decent Linux distribution, you will never see advertising, telemetry, or lack of control, and updates are a mostly positive experience. I switched from Windows 7 to Linux around 10 years ago and it's been an improvement in ~99% of my use cases. The only thing Windows really does better is games and the occasional (rare) piece of software which doesn't have a good equivalent for Linux. In those 10 years I've only found myself running a Windows VM a handful of times to get at some critical functionality I needed from Windows-only software. Switching was one of the best IT decisions I ever made.