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It’s like meeting someone in 2023 who hates Micro$oft WinBLOWZ. Have they been stuck in stasis for 20 years? What other values from the 9/11 era do they hang on
by nikanj 3y ago
It’s like meeting someone in 2023 who hates Micro$oft WinBLOWZ. Have they been stuck in stasis for 20 years? What other values from the 9/11 era do they hang on to?
- dash2 3y agoThis reminds me of the sysadmin at a Greek university I once worked in back in 2009 or so. He had installed Linux at every one of the computer labs' computers. He'd changed the startup software to describe Windows as Windows UnProfessional. The default was Linux, and it would boot within 3 seconds unless you quickly changed it. Under Linux he'd included all the Gnome 2 window manager flash, including spinning cubes and windows that went up in flames when you closed them.... He convinced my friend to install Linux on her laptop. Good times.
- quickthrower2 3y agoA budding RMS!
- oaiey 3y agoI like the fun spirit of it. We do not have these people anymore.
- archerx 3y agoIronically since windows 11, after being pro windows since version 3.11 I have pretty much turned disdainful to Micro$hit WangBLOWz. What a time to be alive.
- croes 3y agoYou mean like hating MS for putting ads in the OS? MS didn't change, they still exploit as much as they can. And they try to force people people into the cloud unable to secure their own software stack. MS didn't get better just because Google got worse.
- nunodonato 3y agoDon't forget that now Microsoft ♥ Linux
- ekianjo 3y agoOh instead do people believe the obvious BS that Microsoft loves Linux and FOSS and has become an ethical company?
- popcalc 3y agoThis might have been among the worst examples you could have used, considering current affairs.
- MrVandemar 3y agoYeah? Last time I installed Microsoft Windows -- I was genuinely giving it a chance -- it asked me during the install if I wanted to see ads. Well, that's like asking me if I wanted a recreational root-canal, so I answered "no". Boot into the OS, and the task-menu-bar-thing is spinning with X-box ads and all sorts of other crap. I dispensed with that shit immediately, and gained a nice little extra disk-space for my /home dir.
- dagw 3y agoIt’s like meeting someone in 2023 who hates Micro$oft WinBLOWZ. As someone who was on the whole pretty pro Microsoft for the past several years, 2022-2023 was when I started 'hating' Microsoft again. Both today me and year 2000 me would agree that 2020 me was completely wrong about giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.
- indymike 3y agoWindows was getting better until MS started preventing users from deleting files, even if they are the owner of the computer. Yes, it is a foot gun, but it also makes fixing problems difficult and sometimes even impossible. Windows 11 seemed pretty nice until my son had a problem installing a game and one of those "untouchable files" was the wrong version, so every 10 minutes or so you'd get an error message. We fixed it by re-imaging it with Debian and Steam. > What other values from the 9/11 era do they hang on to? I'm still into taking care of my family, being honest with people, being nice to people, even if they are not nice to me, and I still like a good single malt whisky.
- JuanPosadas 3y agololwut windows is worse now than it was 20 years ago.