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> I had to run a debloater on my system

Hot take: your ""debloater"" screwed up your system.

I've had problems with Windows, but none of the ones you've described.

> For the average user this experience sucks. But for me, I'm okay.

I guess this describes my Windows experience. I _know_ some people have problems. I don't, because I guess either I got used to it or I know how to avoid it.

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Windows kind of has this property where it rots. Both in time between reboots and in time in general. Running Windows 1+ week without a reboot and it just... gets a little more buggy and a little more slow each day. And then after a few years, it's time for a reinstall.

Windows rot used to mean periodically reformatting. With WinMe you had 1 month. With XP I found it unbearable around 9 months.

This is a great comment. I may wipe my Windows machine a 10th time and try again, but I'm sticking with Linux for now.

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