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Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Bring back windows 2000.. Being forced to upgrade to XP just to get wifi integration was saddening, and the point where I jumped ship.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    This is the thing that bugged me about newer windows. I grew up with windows starting from 3.1 and each version had some fundamental improvement (removing ram limitations, WiFi integration, plug and play support, and just a bunch of shit) that would make you want to "upgrade" and even stinkers like ME still did somethings well. Now? Fuck me if I found anything better after 7 with the windows experience. I still boot up 7 in my living room for my media PC, and its to this day still better then 10 and certainty 11. In fact its the last windows device I even have now.

    Like really, what is the rational in going to a new windows product in the last 10ish years? Broken features? Forced bullshit? Co pilot? Having the search be replaced by a Bing/co pilot eldritch horror? Its not security, windows has not been secure for a long while.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I agree with everything you're saying here besides security. Windows 10 and 11 have received hundreds if not thousands of additional security patches that 7 never will receive, which would be crucial to using the internet safely today.

    However, 11 (and to a lesser extent 10) has horrific privacy invasive features built in, so it's very much a trade-off there, making Linux the only option to have both security and privacy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    They're leaky like a sieve and we just saw a few weeks ago bitlocker has a built in backdoor.

    Its broken by design.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I am in no way disagreeing that Windows 11 is a shit show, and wildly less secure than Linux, but realistically as bad as it is, it's still going to have less open and known vulnerabilities than Windows 7.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    lol, for every vuln they patch, they add two more. One by accident, and one for the fed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    They absolutely do put on government backdoors, but most people aren't going to be personally targeted by that, but they are likely to get hit with non-fed malware, like keyloggers to steal accounts, botnets, identity theft, etc.

    Not that it justifies it, fuck Microsoft, but you get what I mean?

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