But here is the thing: There were already a million reasons to avoid Microsoft even before their lost weekend with this AI fever dream.
Remove the Microslop and those older reasons remain.
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Microslop could do absolutely anything to Windows and it wouldn't make me go back because it would be Microslop doing it.
Like 5 years too late for me, I ditched Winslop bit over 4 years ago, never looked back. Yes, it's not perfect, not everything works out of the box and I have to search for solutions every now and then but it's My Computer again.
The damage has been done. But honestly, Windows 11 changed my life despite its shortcomings.
So thank you, Microslop, for making me embrace Linux.
Microsoft appears to be finally listening to users
They're not, never will.
Their stock tanking like 12% must have been a wake up call
Needs more than just backing off AI to get me to upgrade my backup windows 10 installations (only use them for things Linux can’t do).
Control panel/settings needs to be fixed and they can fuck right off with one drive. Every file should be on my computer unless I specifically save to a clearly designated cloud drive. No cloud functions should ever touch files I have saved (by default) to my computer. Also unfuck the start and explorer menus and give me back my pinball.
After that we can talk, but I’m still skeptical.
OneDrive also deletes files off of your computer if you don't use them often enough. When I was switching over to Linux I had to download a bunch of stuff that was made on that PC! Ridiculous.
Like, you can turn that off, but I don't think I ever signed up for that specifically.
Yeah, I just don’t trust it so I don’t use it. I have one drive storage and use it, but only on my phone and via the website. I don’t let it touch my windows install because it’s just waaaaaay too aggressive.
I'd love to know who deemed adding more clicks to get to features an improvement.
The improvement is you’re less likely to use your computer the way you want to instead of the way Micro$lop wants to tell investors you could use it in a way beneficial to them.
You know you can decline the onedrive folder sync during initial setup right?
I do not because I have never installed windows 11 on a computer personally. I tediously forced all my windows 10 installs to local accounts and forcibly clawed back my local folders on my old laptop after one drive stole everything. I’m also still super skeptical about how “easy” it is to avoid one drive “integration” on windows 11.
Stop spreading disinformation then.
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
Having a theoretical way to maybe do what I suggest hidden in a menu during install and potentially reversed on its own during a standard update (as it happened to me on windows 10) isn’t the same as having it be a clear choice to use one drive as a personally chosen storage location.
I don't think windows is an OS anymore. It just the personification of the checkout questions they ask you at GameStop or BestBuy about the extended warranty or magazine subscription.
*skeptical
Is this going to be another jealous/envious situation? Are we going to lose "skeptic" from our language because no one can be bothered to learn the difference between a skeptic and a cynic?
While I understand your point, in this case I think "cynical" is applicable.
Anything to do with mega corporations (like M$), I assume bad faith and selfish motives from the start.
They have an (unintentional) strategy of alternating good and bad releases. So *if windows 12 comes out and it is somewhat sensible, it will be amazing when compared to win 11, and people will not wait to get off 11 onto 12.
Whereas if 12/came out right after 10, it would be compared to 10 and people would not like it as much.
If you look at the foundations of the OS the pattern becomes clear. They release a concept of an OS, but its half baked and not implemented well. So they fix it and rebrand it, and that's the "good" version.
95 became 98
ME became XP
Vista became 7
10 became 10 - they broke pattern by wanting to stay in a perpetual 10 state and keep updating it (which is why it was around 10 years). 10 was not good when it launched and took years to fix it, essentially becoming its own replacement.
I wouldn’t call it good and bad. I’d say every other release they have a horrific one to scare people and then they have a bad but better than the other one release.
The data harvesting is just getting to be too much though. That’s in every release.
They made this promise? Lol ok.
You guys should see what phone link is up to. Even if you didn't configure it.
planning on cutting back some AI features where they don't make sense.
Lol, that's basically saying they'll remove AI from the entire system, 🤣
Pissed that I had to reinstall Windows because Linux’s usability with my Valve Index isn’t quite where it needs to be. Was quite happy on Fedora before I attempted to run VR stuff again.