Why does anyone use windows?
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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For me, Minecraft bedrock (for kids) but looks like anything MS tainted will start (or maybe already does) require windows.
Looks like I have to decide what to do soon because they're still on W10.
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It's stupid, honestly. I was trying to play Fallout New Vegas for the fifth time, and starting the game I realized the main radio station of the game, which repeats forever, was mute. For my weird taste, this was a dealbreaker, as IDK how they do it, but their playlists have this quality to immerse me in the game no matter how many times I listen to them. Tried every fix I could find to sort this problem with no success. So, back to Windows 10, and it works. At this point of time, I don't play New Vegas, but there are so many GB to download, partitions to extend, etc. I guess in December I will try to go back to Linux.
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I hate Windows. But I have to use Adobe suite. Wine doesn't play nice. More than an hour of troubleshooting I feel is not worth it. I need to be working more than solving issues. Someone point me to how to make Adobe suite work (without hours of troubleshooting) and I'll join the Linux team. Do not suggest other software options I get the files for Adobe they have to be Adobe specific.
Honestly, Adobe and Microsoft deserve each other. It's Adobe you should reach to get you a solution, not us, Linux users. As much as we would like to help you, you are caged by Adobe and your industry "standards".
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If you're not willing to try to escape the terrible enshittification of Adobe, I don't think anyone's gonna be able to help you.
That sucks. Sorry you have to deal with their bullshit AND Microsoft's bullshit.
Other software might surprise you. 🤷♂️
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Oh good, M$ won't try to break my machine anymore? Sweet, thanks for giving me a reason to use my local account only.
hatred against Microsoft aside, this change doesn't surprise me. With forcing an account, it allows them to tie your support subscription directly to an account instead of having it be a product key, which is annoying for both the user and the agent in trying to validate whether or not it's in support or not.
Like, I hate the mentality of needing to use Microsoft services to use a Microsoft system, but this is one of their decisions that I can somewhat understand, it makes it far easier for subscription based setups.
The article explicitly pointed out this extended security patching does not cover support
It's easy to agree with Microsoft when you don't bother reading the article and just make up a reason to support their decision
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There are a few ways of doing that without harvesting PII . This is just naked disdain for people not hooking up for oneChive overages.
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Oh well. I'm just glad I can access all my files on NTFS so I don't even have to migrate anything.
Maybe reinstall some games, and say no more to others, but that's the way things be.
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