> Occasionally I think "maybe Windows wasn't as bad as I thought", and then I hear or read something about it that makes me go, "Ohhhhh THAT'S why I got the hel

> Occasionally I think "maybe Windows wasn't as bad as I thought", and then I hear or read something about it that makes me go, "Ohhhhh THAT'S why I got the hell away from that trash heap." Same, but there’s a special type of rage for their dark patterns tricking or even directly coercing their own users. I have to help family members who don’t know better to fix their broken experience because windows update replaced their default browser, among many similar slimy things. It makes me upset they prey on the technically ”less able” in order to squeeze unsuspecting people for pennies. Their guidelines on malware would put their own software in either PUA (potentially unwanted applications) or malware, if they didn’t create exceptions for themselves.