This isn't even a joke or hyperbolic.

The last straw for me was when Windows kept overwriting my boot loader. Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition. Thanks for playing, we have a lovely parting gift for you!

The best joke is when you install Edge on your friends Linux computer when they are not looking and they lose their shit. Like a war vet when fireworks go off.

Me at work every frickin day

I mean, my first 30 seconds of experiencing Windows 11 was watching a coworker wait for the file manager to open + render its toolbar, so I don't think I could've really come to a different conclusion...

It's gotten to the stage (on the same hardware) where my Linux OS runs amazing, audio is perfect, and the nVidia drivers work great.. And so do the Windows games via Proton; while my Windows11 OS keeps getting buggier and the NVidia driver displays windows dialogs with garbled text or black zigzags inside dialogs.

In corporate environment, add Crowdstrike, Zscaler, windows instrumentation, and then some digital experience management solution to report on why apps are so slow, battery life is still only a few hours while it heats the room while sitting 'idle', or trying to render a file explorer window with 20 cores and 32 GB of RAM. Did I mention there are updates and you MUST REBOOT NOW, forget that you are presenting to a client.

Almost as offensive as Dell laptop keyboards on their corpo laptops. Ugh.

It's the smell.

Me when I have to use Windows at work (I've gotten to the point of using WSL for as much as I can)

Literally tried to install windows 11 for our office machines last week.

• installed
• extremely slow and laggy
• check process manager
• just takes 3.7GB to boot up
• Uninstall and install win10 IoT LTSC and debloat it immediately

unfortunately Linux isn't yet an option because of microsoft office.

It's the smell!

He should be glitching and stuttering for the full Windows experience

I'm a lifelong Windows user. I was using DOS and Windows 3.1 back in the 90's. I learned how to set up and manage windows servers in college. I manage an active directory domain at work.

I did not like Windows 8 or 10. I think removing the start menu was stupid. Changing the right-click context menu was even more stupid. It seems every iteration of Windows up until Windows 7 focused on adding new features and improving the UI, where as every iteration after has stripped features away and made the UI worse.

Windows 11 was the last straw. I built a new PC earlier this year and run Nobara Linux on it. It's not perfect, but it's been fantastic and it works much better than Windows 10 or 11. Thanks to AI chatbots like Gemini I've been able to get help when it comes to learning terminal commands and configuring my OS just the way I want it. It plays all my games from Steam, GOG, itch.io, and even my ROM library. I've even been able to install Amethyst mod manager to install mods for Elder Scrolls Oblivion, which has been great fun. Amethyst also supports other Bethesda titles like Skyrim, Fallout, and Starfield. I'm very happy with it. It feels like I haven't had to sacrifice anything. All my games work, but now I have total control over my UI, when my OS installs updates, and I have privacy again. No tracking BS reporting back to Microsoft.

Also at work we used to have over a thousand windows workstations. We've been switching our users over to chromebooks and now there are less than 100 windows workstations in our domain. Microsoft has lost me as a home customer, and over 90% of our business customers. I think they've shot themselves in the foot because I don't see how cloud computing is going to carry them for much longer. I think almost half of microsoft's cloud runs office 365 and onedrive, which home and office users don't actually need. Libre Office exists and people can use dropbox instead, if they even need it. Many people can just use a USB drive like the old days. Microsoft Azure makes up just over half of microsoft's cloud infrastructure, and a significant portion of their azure market is running AI clusters. I do think there is an AI bubble, and that won't continue for long either.

I think Microsoft is going to have a comeuppance, and it will be well deserved. They brought this upon themselves.

There’s literally only one application I still need Windows for: EAC (Exact Audio Copy).

Everything else has a (often better) Linux alternative/version, runs in WINE or Proton, or can be used just fine in a virtual machine.

Is there a loops app on f-droid yet?

No thats 45 min. 30 sec is way before you finally get the usb to boot on the 3rd time flashing it. Then you find out you need to look up the latest hacky shit needed to make an offline account

Can confirm. I used Linux and Unix almost exclusively for about 20 years, and when I more recently had to use Windoze again for work, this is pretty much what happened.

Also, me trying to use a mac.