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Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users with full-screen prompts

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I just upgraded to Windows 10 LTSC last year and spent months decrapifying it and customizing it to my liking.

No way I'm upgrading to Windows 11 soon...or probably ever. All of my other machines are Linux, and the only reason this one is Windows is for Photoshop and desktop Excel, neither one of which I am attached to, as Open Source alternatives are getting better and better.

I think I'll run my gaming computer on its own isolated network and do a reinstall of Win10 every month or so rather than install Win11 (or pay MS for patches lol; like wtf, I might pirate those just out of principal). Win11 is genuinely that bad of an OS from my limited experience with it.

Not that Win10 is drastically better, but at least you can turn off most of the dumb Win10 things that Win11 will absolutely force down your throat, given half a chance.

I've switched to Linux/Proton which has worked for basically anything I care to play these day.

I did the same earlier this year and have been very happy with how well Linux meets my desktop computing and gaming needs. For the most part, the Steam games I play just work under Proton. There have been a few cases where I needed to force it to use a particular version of Proton, but that's easy enough to do.

What's great about Linux is that the computer actually serves me again, instead of trying to extract value from me.

If it's not networked, what's the benefit to monthly reinstalls? Or do you mean still give it internet access but isolate and regularly wipe in case it gets malware?

Microsoft's contempt for their users is legendary.

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206631

When I click on the link, I get a full screen cookies prompt, with no "reject" button. The prompt doesn't even really tell me I can reject - I have to press "manage settings", and there I can click "reject", which no doubt still subscribes me to 874 legitimate interest data thriving "Internet research" nonsense

I'll take their contempt for full-screen misleading Windows ads with a pinch of salt.

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