Technology

7 was good. 10 was ok-ish.
11 and its forced online-account? No, thanks.

It's 10 LTSC for now. Laptop runs KDE just fine, it's the lesser pain right now.

And looking like they are impossible to solve. It seems that the OS is more and more a black box of vibe coding and marketing wank as time passes.

Windows recently "hung up" when opening "network and internet settings", just a blank square.

Also, blank square when opening "file explorer".

Both are working now; my point is I couldn't accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.

Luckily i keep not running into the issues, Its mostly the unwanted windows features that seem to irritate me (f off onedrive and copilot) I keep trying to swap but I found what im good at finally and it is bricking linux installs.

I am not Linux savvy at all but I was ready to switch for me gaming pc.

Well I actually did for a month with nobara, which was great. What shocked me was it seemed much more modern than windows ! It took me some time to get how things worked and I could do everything I wanted with no command line. I still think it can be hard to get started at first to install some windows games/programs not on steam(everything is fantastic on that part), it could use a tutorial for newcomers... But overall, fantastic experience.

Until I tried to use my thrustmaster wheel and I had problems (and I am not the only one it seems). Apart from that (didn't try to use my flight stick or VR headset yet but maybe it could have been problematic too) it was absolutely great. I went back to win11 for now but with a very barebone ltsc version (no win store, no game bar, no ai, and no online account). It's far from perfect and I'd rather be on Linux as I think it will be better in the long term.

Lol

Lmao even

Windows is getting so bad, people are finally looking more to Linux

I had Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Ally that I was too lazy to remove. Bitlocker locked the system randomly and would not accept the recovery key from my Microsoft Account.

I installed Bazzite the next day.

I was there since the first dos and windows emerged. I was a MS-enthusiast. Kinda. I have all titles and certificates MS offers, just for fun. I know what I'm doing.

I hated 95, I hated vista, I hated win8...but 11? The only good thing is HDR and...err...yes. Everything else pisses me off so much. And wouldn't it be due to aggressive anti-cheats I probably would've mained Linux and would just have the servers for the domain. I have 18 machines running and 15 are Linux already.

I don't understand why they have to fuck up so badly. The horrible crappy "new" Startmenu alone gives me STDs. Would be even survivable if they gave me the option to not use it. I absolutely despise changes I have to gulp down without options.

Even the server versions...I loved winnt and everything up to 2019. Then that went downhill too.

Ah, who cares. Win12 will be decent again, win13 the absolute total nightmare garbage that makes you long for having win11 back and will probably be the end of microsoft's consumer market. So stupid fucking apple can take over the last remaining sheeples.

By using LTSC most issues on Windows are fixed.

It's unusable and they vibe coded the entire thing.

We had to switch back to windows 10 at work due to the issues we had with 11. Now my computer is permanently broken with many default applications that simply do not work and my IT department can't figure it out.