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That's just unacceptable. I'm glad I left Microsoft products behind at the end of the Windows 7 era. Linux on the desktop for years now.

Wine is getting pretty good. If I really have to run a Windows executable, I can.

I'm even developing something that has to work cross-platform. I compile in Rust with

    --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

and test under Wine. Had to get some bugs fixed in a few low level crates for that to work, but now I can do Vulkan graphics in the Windows executable running under Wine. There's still a problem with Tracy profiling with cross-compile, but it's a package level build script problem.

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Same here. I was done after Windows 7 for linux.

I would say I can't believe they are doing this but I can completely believe they are doing this.

I remember how much I liked Windows 2000 and then they had to "fix" it.

I was reasonably happy with the NT 3.51 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows 7 line of Microsoft products. I skipped Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows XP. By Windows 7, Microsoft had finally figured out how to make it work, had dumped much of the DOS-era code, and had the consumer and pro versions unified into something good.

It's been downhill since then. Ads, subscriptions, and trying to make desktops look like phones.

Windows 7 is still 12% of the installed base, and that's not counting the ones that don't phone home to Redmond.

I tried to do that a year ago, but the problem was my PC froze (full lock up, even mouse pointer is frozen) regularly. I didn't know how to even start troubleshooting a thing like that so I left to Win10 again (was Linux Mint btw).

I've experienced Cinnamon on Linux Mint crashing (leaving the display frozen), but it was possible to go do a tty with ctrl+alt+functionkey (each of f1-f6 goes to a different tty, f7 goes back to the display) and manually restart it. But this hasn't happened to me in the last couple months, so it's probably fixed.

Then I've had some full freezes where precisely nothing at all works, but those happen very rarely and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a hardware problem.

Then there's full RAM. Yes, linux still hasn't figured out how to not flop on its head dead when RAM fills up; though usually the mouse pointer isn't immediately frozen.

> I didn't know how to even start troubleshooting a thing like that

Reading the system logs is always a good place to start.

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