Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

  • IAmNotACat@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    And that raises a good point, since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway. I’ve switched many over to Linux because of this.

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      4 months ago

      since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway

      Close but no cigar.

      While some people do take their tech-friend’s help, majority of people just buy PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled. THAT is the reason people are just used to Windows.

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        4 months ago

        That doesn’t preclude what I said, though. When there is installing to be done, it’s usually the tech friend that’s called in to do it. I know this by virtue of being that person and having been called on to do it several times.

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        4 months ago

        PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled

        or even pay extra to install it, if the machine would have FreeDOS by default.