Huge respect for not putting Ubuntu

Yes, it’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever need.

To be fair, that is entirely accurate. It is the last windows I will ever need because I switched to linux.

On released they didn't know yet how far they can push that telemetry shit down their users' throats. I bet, 11 is better optimized for that. And eventually, it'll be Win365 OSaaS anyway...

No I think it's a daemon they summoned. Maybe the notification daemon?

Btw

They have added so much ad stuff and other garbage that the OS is slowing down, to combat the user perception that the OS is slow they have increased the hardware requirement.

The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it's probably a Mac.

This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.

Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they're necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.

So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.

I started my Gentoo compile in 2008. It should be ready by next October.

Honestly you're not a real one until you've written your own kernel entirely

Linux has a good starter kernel but ideally you should