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Windows is a complete subscription hell, with annoying pop-ups unless you regularly pay Microsoft etc. fairly large amounts, and then there's the commercials an
by impossiblefork 2y ago
Windows is a complete subscription hell, with annoying pop-ups unless you regularly pay Microsoft etc. fairly large amounts, and then there's the commercials and MSN. My mother switched to Linux because she felt that she with Windows didn't have a real computer, but that Microsoft had a computer she borrowed.
It was never great-- there was always bloat, but recently it's crossed a line of unusability where the OS itself is more distracting than useful.
- dboreham 2y agoPay Microsoft for what?
- impossiblefork 2y agoWord, for example, but I think there are also other subscriptions in it. Meanwhile, with Libreoffice, it just works.
- _7tgr 2y agoYes, it constantly bugs you about buying OneDrive.
- MikeTheGreat 2y agoI was gonna (silently) disagree with you, but in the last couple of weeks I updated Windows and now it's periodically asking if it can know my location. I'm not clear if Windows is asking, or it's asking on behalf of a specific app, or so it can give this info to any app that wants it. And I don't care - the answer is no, no matter how many times it asks. I always admired Linux, and was able to get around in Linux, but never seriously considered using it until that MS AI thing that works by taking a screenshot every couple of seconds. And now this pester-ware asking for my location.