Because SOMEONE thought complete privacy rape is worth "when did i tell my friend about that dune movie?"
completely against everyone's will: absolute tracking
So now the hackers dont even have to do any real work in identifying juicy targets... just hack something, and now built in automated queries to the "ai search" will find everything good without the slightest targeted effort any more
Means .. "we're pushing even more unwanted crap onto your screen in so many different ways you'll wonder how you're going to ever get any work done!"
I've never really been a Windows fan, and having recently wrestled with a Windows 10 installation for a local charity I can confirm that state will not be changing. Using a Windows 10 for actual work is bad enough, so I can only imagine what '11 will be like.
Uninstalling OneDrive every time they re-install it is annoying but also pretty simple.
RE: any arguments about ads and such... I don't see what's an ad? I disable copilot in my taskbar. It takes all of 10 seconds to remove the LinkedIn and other crappy shortcut (just shortcut, not full software mind you) from my start menu the one time a year (at best) I reinstall Windows. Yeah, there's OneDrive, but you can uninstall it unlike something similar on another platform like iCloud. And you know what? I can run applications from 25 years ago with practically no issue.
Yes I am aware of RT. There's a reason it didn't survive. Yes, I understand what S mode is. It's also not the default install method for many devices, and you can disable it.
Having a proper "copy" and "paste" in the right click menu in Explorer (or whatever is left of it) is "old". /s
Not all this garbage. Windows 11 is such trash everywhere.
I was worried when I found that I didn't have winget, but just installing windows terminal installed it with it. That's pretty much all I need.
I decided to not even let this Windows 11 VM connect to the internet (But has access to my MacOS partition to for file access).
It's a shame because windows got so many things right but it's starting to taste bad. We used to write software to have windows control some pretty cool stuff like automation, security and POS but there's no longer a "Pro" version without the dumpster truck.
Anyway - today the damn weather showed up on my win 11 taskbar to the extreme left. Click on it and a huge panel of crap opens. No obvious way to turn of these weather alerts. Even the start button sucks , full of crap. Pretty sure it made a Microsoft account automatically too through the parallels installer using my Mac credentials (ugh!)
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40226934
Also, Windows XP sucked. Windows XP SP2, OTOH…
Keep in mind this wasn't a real scientific analysis or anything.
I refuse to use anything past Windows 7. (When I have to use Windows, that is.)
Then, the same thing happened with Windows 98SE.
And Windows 2000.
And Windows XP.
And...
According to many, Windows UI/UX peaked in the Win2k/XP/Win7 era.
Among those, significant improvements: memory management, new/more stable drivers, 64-bit support, better use of multi-core cpu's, etc.
But since then: increased telem.. ehm, spying. Pushing ads everywhere. Mostly pointless UI overhauls again & again for little end-user benefit. If any.
It's sad that giants like MS seem so hell-bent on enshittifying their flagship products. Just imagine what could have been if MS had kept supporting, improving internals, and adding drivers to the 'oldie' OSes mentioned above. Or stick to minor upgrades leaving OS look & feel intact.
Sure there's tech limitations. But I dare you: name some application(s) that would be impossible on say, Win7 due to fundamental issues in its design (assuming MS & app developer were both on board to smooth out wrinkles). Anyone?
lol. J/k
For real tho, every Windows version after 3.x was bad at first. Then people moved, and then the next one was worse.
"Hohndel [sic] reckons the current trend toward the open source model has only one conclusion: that Linux will become as prevalent as Windows on the desktop within the next two to three years." -- SuSE's Dirk Hohndel talking with ZDNet, 2000
I was never some Unix snob, up until Win 7 I was a happy camper. Today I would not accept a job that would force me to work on Win machine.
I once tried to convince them that Microsoft should 'do an Apple' by using Linux under the hood the same way that Apple used BSD under the hood.
That would free up a lot of the programming workload of Windows by putting it onto the Linux community, and allow Microsoft to concentrate on the Windows Desktop alone, the same way that Apple concentrated on the Apple Desktop while leaving BSD to the BSDers.
I still believe this would be a win-win for Microsoft and its users alike.
However, Microsoft has always been about the Benjamins, and not about good things for its users.
I could be in a bubble, but it seems like even the less technical Deck owners can at least follow Reddit or YouTube tutorials (of which there are many) to do more advanced things on their Deck. Setting up emulators is one of the more common things people do.
The OS also comes up in comparisons to competing PC handhelds, as the marginally more powerful alternatives all seem to come with Windows and suffer in the UX department. Valve allegedly plans to release their current SteamOS version for others to use, but it hasn't happened yet. There are a couple third party recreations in the meantime that people put on these other devices themselves.
(I liked the look of Vista, and it ran OK on my machine; but I still went with 7)
It was my experience that it was mostly fine. It had teething problems, as many things do. It had lasting quirks that were frustrating.
But generally, it worked well enough for me -- given other options. I never once said to myself "Self, this particular version of Windows is repugnant and filthy, and I want to go back to Windows XP now!!!"
(...because, as any Win2k fanboy would heartily remind anyone at the least-significent mention: Windows XP was a Skittles-colored turd. But Win2k was really old in computer-years by the time Vista came 'round, so that wasn't very viable either.)