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Hate is too Sterling for these gripes, but this is relatively the best fit:

Windows 10, useful for some games with friends, because of the “nudges” to change my behavior, like asking if I really want to keep using that program, the magic-fingers messages on installation (suggesting I just blindly trust), and the difficulty to install without an online account, among other things. I can’t replace it yet, but the day will come, one way or another.

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I'm astonished by how user-hostile Windows is. I'm excited when there's a new MacOS or iOS update with new features, but I only trust Windows updates to jam my computer for an hour or two without asking, break a few things, and sneak in unwanted changes against my best interest.

I would be wary of dating a Microsoft employee, because they don't seem to understand what consent means.

One of the things that keep me from switching to Linux on my gaming machine is Game Pass.

With the sheer number of games that exist elsewhere, is it really necessary to fund Microsoft's attempt to monopolize gaming?

You can just not have what's on Game Pass. You will survive. It didn't exist a couple years ago, but now you can't do without?

This is a silly take. Game Pass is the best value in gaming today by a huge margin and I say that as a general naysayer of MIcrosoft. It is a reasonable take for someone to stay with MS because of the service.

Theres no reason to be childish. There's lots of alternatives to game pass that will net you significantly high quality experiences without supporting convicted monopolist Microsofts Disney-ification of the games industry.

This take is ignoring the social nature of much of gaming. Changing which set of games I play is one thing, convincing my friend group to go with me is another. Especially for my friends whose primary way of playing games is on an XBox, meaning we rely on cross play as much as we can

At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself if you're OK with destroying the thing you love for convenience a small amount of convenience.

Hmm... Xbox Cloud Gaming works for me on Chronium on Linux. Is that something different? Wikipedia is implying that's the sane thing to me. Is it possible you just haven't tried?

Most of the games available via Gamepass aren't supported via Xcloud

Switch to Linux and you'll find many more reasons to switch back to Windows... like most of your hardware working as intended most of the time is a big one.

Windows has been working hard this last decade to cache up with linux's spotty driver support.

If you can get a copy of the LTSC or Education distros, they're leagues ahead of the common Win 10 experience: much less clutter and nagging, being able to defer content updates, less tracking.

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