Opinion: Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there’s a problem

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Windows 10 is also a privacy nightmare and also has Edge, One drive and ads.

      Windows 11 has some nice features and you can use Group Policy to clean it up a bit.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        20 hours ago

        This is very true. There is a very weird endorsement from the Linux community of Windows 10 I do not align with at all. It’s basically the exact same thing.

        Especially since a lot of the less palatable features have been patched in backwards fairly dilligently. I use both routinely and there is little functional difference.

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      2 days ago

      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.

      • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        At this point, Windows itself is the Spyware. Forced cloud Accounts, AI Features embedded so deeply into the windows core that you can not longer remove it.

        The only intro get rid of it is installing Linux or buying a mac

        • MudMan@fedia.io
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          20 hours ago

          A Mac? To avoid “forced cloud accounts and embedded AI features”?

          MS is out here pointing at Apple and going “I learned it from you, dad!” when it comes to those.