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> It still has enough annoyances that it isn't worth 6% or extra freedom for me. It is funny that I found modern Windows an annoyance instead. Every time I hav
by kokada 2y ago
> It still has enough annoyances that it isn't worth 6% or extra freedom for me.
It is funny that I found modern Windows an annoyance instead. Every time I have to boot my Windows machine (I boot in Windows maybe once every month), generally one of those followings things happen:
- I need to type my BitLocker recovery key because for some reason Windows always reset it (from my search it seems that the fault is my Lenovo docker that acts as a PCI-e device and Windows doesn't like when a PCI-e is removed/reattached and invalidates the BitLocker key in TPM, but it is still annoying)
- Windows need to download a bunch of updates. Not a big issue, but now that Windows 11 is all about "feature updates", at least twice a year I need to see that dreadful "Welcome Screen" asking the same questions that I already answered a few months ago
- If the above happens, this also generally also brings some feature that I need to hunt to disable. "We think it would be so fun if we can show to you a random lock screen wallpaper, especially if we can also show you some ads for money, so let's active this by default even if you already disabled this in your previous Windows install".
- Even if it is not a big Windows update, every time I boot Windows I still need to wait a while until my system is usable again since every other program will run their update process. Of course they're all separate updaters, so they have no idea they're running at the same time, slowing down both my system and network in the process
I mean, I understand your complain. If I was not deep in Linux since my colleage days I don't think I could get used to the system today. NixOS also definitely helps because once I fix an issue, I know this issue will stay fixed even if I need to reinstall the system. The fact that Linux seems to be the only major operational system that respect my choices today is a huge to me.