Also, oh my god, the enshittifcation! I had to install it for some work thing, and booting a clean copy reminds me of a peak pre-loaded-software windows box.

Also, oh my god, the enshittifcation! I had to install it for some work thing, and booting a clean copy reminds me of a peak pre-loaded-software windows box. All they need to add to reach full feature parity is a Candy Crush captcha that gates the “login to enhance google tracking” and “switch search engines” dialogs. I honestly don’t understand how people put up with the boiled frog crap from Google. The last time I ran a test query, the ads pushed 100% of the search results off the front page.