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I had the same experience. Even installing linux is easier for me now. And with new spyware features of windows, there is really no incentive to use it

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Could have written the exact same sentence when Vista came out. I still wonder when it's finally enough for the poor souls still stuck in windows

It’s finally enough for me at least. I’m skipping windows 11 and going to Linux instead.

When we die off I guess lol.

I've been using windows since I was 6 or 7. I currently work in a Mac environment and hate it. I worked in a linux one for 5 years. Nothing feels like the first language you learned I guess?

My home computer is windows and it'll be that way until windows stops existing.

Edit: when I say we I mean the people still on windows.

I have a video of me typing things into Microsoft Word at ~3-4 years old. I still hate Windows with a passion now (Mac too, tbh).

Definitely not for me. Was in Windows between 95 and XP, never looked back. Same for my first programming languages, glad I am not stuck still doing PHP and Java.

Switched my main Linux and desktop environment multiple times as well.

I’m actually going long on Windows now after learning about how the Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel, whereas Windows is a “hybrid” microkernel design. It explains so much about some program behavior in Linux (eg crashing Gnome would often cause kernel panics) that you don’t see at all on Windows.

Yeah, the spyware is annoying and stupid. But once you strip it out (it can be removed/blocked), Windows 11 is absolutely rock solid.

Honestly accurate for a dev work machine.

For a gamer... still not quite, but very close.

For the corps ... it's a legacy issue, but that may slip away as a side effect of Trump destroying global soft power and making it a hard sell to remain on a US led platform, purely op sec concerns, the spyware issue will add more weight to that.

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