I banished Windows from my life a long time ago. My quality of life improved shortly thereafter. I had reached rock bottom after spending a day trying to unbugger my mother in law’s computer. It felt like waking up after a long bender in a pile of my own sick. She caused the pain herself because Windows invited it without guardrails - yet somehow I was holding the bag. I’m Windows-clean now and no longer offer to try (or agree) to help. I know the personal risks. I support you if you’re still enraptured by the Windows range and despair. I get it. Getting clean isn’t easy. Gather the strength.
My flatmate is now a Linux user. But it took her so long to make the switch. What finally did it was when she sat down at a default windows 11 PC that I was fixing and we just opened the start menu saw a ton of ads and software applications that weren’t installed and you had to pay for. I showed her that almost every single application has ads for products built in (co pilot buttons, one drive etc) and I said this is what you’re going to pay money to upgrade to.
She installed mint and loves it. (I hate it because mint has so many small issues that are fixed in newer versions and it uses x11)
I banished Windows from my life a long time ago. My quality of life improved shortly thereafter. I had reached rock bottom after spending a day trying to unbugger my mother in law’s computer. It felt like waking up after a long bender in a pile of my own sick. She caused the pain herself because Windows invited it without guardrails - yet somehow I was holding the bag. I’m Windows-clean now and no longer offer to try (or agree) to help. I know the personal risks. I support you if you’re still enraptured by the Windows range and despair. I get it. Getting clean isn’t easy. Gather the strength.
My flatmate is now a Linux user. But it took her so long to make the switch. What finally did it was when she sat down at a default windows 11 PC that I was fixing and we just opened the start menu saw a ton of ads and software applications that weren’t installed and you had to pay for. I showed her that almost every single application has ads for products built in (co pilot buttons, one drive etc) and I said this is what you’re going to pay money to upgrade to.
She installed mint and loves it. (I hate it because mint has so many small issues that are fixed in newer versions and it uses x11)