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[Opinion] Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
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It's literally an operating system
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Windows might be a habit, but Microsoft is doing a pretty good job in breaking this habit. Many rather jump ship than make the move to Windows 11.
Windows 11 isn't even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.
I think MS shot itself in the foot by doing the whole "we'll just iterate on this one forever" pivot to data gathering thing. At least in the good old days of Windows Me they could point at the next refresh as a clean break, even if it wasn't.
I ran Windows Me for maybe a year, by the way. Mostly out of morbid curiosity. It wasn't even that bad, as I remember it.
Windows 11 isn't even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.
In terms of spyware and enshittification it sure as Hell is!
And that's the measure that matters here: not mistakes, but deliberate abuse of the user.
Speak for yourself. I'd rather take spyware and enshittification than whatever Windows 8 was.
I can get rid of the spyware and I was never going to use copilot anyway. Vista was Vista all the way through.
According to physiology, a bad habit becomes an addiction when it negatively impacts your life.
It’s already an addiction.