Listen. I do not want fucking ads in the start menu. I have no idea how to code and I can't use the command terminal to save my life but I swear to god I'm going to switch to Linux before I touch Windows 11 with a 10-foot pole

Neither.

laughs in penguin

I use Arch

Windows 10 is usable, so linux, I choose linux.

11 isnt even a decent sidegrade, its just a controlgrab trying to take away what little self definition a user has.

Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better: Have you tried installing the current version recently? There's like a dozen screens full of bullshit where you have to click "maybe later" or "yes, I want the limited experience", while Windows hits you with messages such as "setting up some stuff" or "relax and let us take care of everything".
Then after installation you have to go through all the settings and deny, deny, deny some more.
Hide the annoying mouseover "news", the search field, remove Edge from desktop, taskbar, standard app settings and favorites, ...Shit, forgot to install updates first.
So you update. Now the privacy settings are changed again, Edge is back everywhere (it's your standard browser again), "news" are back, the search field is back. But only after you clicked through the blue screen asking you all the questions from the installation again.
Not to mention the urgent security notifications telling you you'll lose all your data if you don't set up OneDrive and your PC isn't safe without an MS account...

It took me years to get my win10 install to a point that I was somewhat happy with it. I've lost track of how many registry edits i've had to do just to disable a feature I didn't want, or enable a feature microsoft wanted to take away from me. The numerous utilities I've had to download just to have functionality that was built into windows back in 7 or xp. I literally don't remember all the things I've had to do, and I refuse to do it again. Now microsoft wants to take away the entire operating system? No.

I just installed linux yesterday. It is a royal pain in my ass, as several design choices are just different from what I'm used to (middle click is paste? what the hell?). However, there's no ads in the start menu. Text I type into the start menu doesn't get sent to an online search engine. There's no proto-ai garbage. Oh, and it didn't cost $200 like my win10 key did.

It's going to take me a week to set up, as I have tons of data on many ntfs drives that I need to be able to do anything productive, and they're all "read only" because I think windows knows I have a linux install and now blue-screens every time I try to shut it down. (This is a problem because ntfs drives get set to read only if windows doesn't shut down cleanly).

Windows 10 is as bad as windows 11. The problems with windows run so deep in the Microsoft design philosophy that they infect everything Microsoft touches.

Starting to think 8.1 might be the most viable windows version...

I actually really liked it when I used it. It was kind of the windows 7 to eights vista.

Happily on Linux now, tho.

Funny thing is, I have so much stuff in OneDrive now, it has made transitioning from my PC to another temporary/permanent environment much easier. So…they might actually be helping me move to Linux.

My gaming PC is sticking with 10 for the foreseeable future, it's my only windows machine and that's because it's a beatsaber and fusion360 machine and I don't want to be bothered with fixing something when I want to get a workout session in or need to urgently design a part.

P.S. if anyone knows how to get fusion working in wine I'm all ears

I'll take my Arch, please and thank you

waiting for Windows 11 LTSC, which should be later this year(?)

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