I watched the video and he doesn't understand the problem at all.

I think step one is to start from scratch and not worry about backwards compatibility. Is it going to be painful? No doubt. But all that legacy support causes problems.

Hardcore windows eh? Sounds like linux...

cat /etc/*-release

I guess i'm already using a hardcore OS.

Honestly though. Microsoft doesn't give a shit about "hardcore users" - they care about revenue. Windows and their cloud ecosystem sure as shit is doing well. It's not like there's much of an alternative with staff trained in it beyond the tech people though, sadly.

Would be nice to see the government put FOSS first and deprioritize proprietary solutions. Let's say we change the US government to use Linux and FOSS products to do the job. Plus If every kid had to submit homework via libreoffice and were given linux based laptops instead of the typical chromebook/mac/bullshit maybe it would change...

I think a handful of really big companies could probably effect this change too, but very few are majority linux outside of infrastructure services.

The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don't like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn't stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.

He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, "because they can't just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees." Cool, I'd rather stick to linux, thanks.

Is hardcore mode where if the computer crashes it automatically deletes any files you had and resets the OS to a clean slate?

There was an article on a tech news site recently about how to unshittify windows. Just like 4 pages of stuff to turn off and uninstall.

People in the comments unsurprisingly were like "Linux is free and getting better all the time". People were mad. So mad.

Last night I had to go into powershell to delete an mp3 because for some reason I couldn’t just right click and delete because I needed admin permission. I built you I’m not an admin I’m god

That video came up in my youtube recommendations last night, and I watched it. Pretty good, although if you've used Windows in the past ten years there aren't going to be any real surprises in there. It sucks for all the reasons people usually complain about, and it's all getting worse lately.

This is the YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/oTpA5jt1g60

Of course it's fucking Dave, piece of shit https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom

Hardcode mode

So if my PC crashes, I have to get a whole new one and start at the beginning?

I've decided I'll juat use a Mac for work and play PC games on a docked SteamDeck. No more need for windows.

When did it not suck exactly?

Maybe win 2000?

XP was the start of the enshitification, I knew I couldn't stay on windows with that release.

Although after Bill (how can this sell more windows) left and they were very open about being a DATA collection company first, a computer service company second, I thought they might simply offer windows for free.

With all this shit in it of course because that is how you satisfy data collection.

But I guess they figured why kill the revenue stream of windows itself.

Microsoft needs to get on this. I would pay money out of my own pocket to be able to upgrade my Windows 11 to hardcore mode at work just so I didn't have to deal with all of their AI and tracking bullshit.

And actually I know the company I work for would pay to upgrade all of their employees to the same level. Like they're sitting on millions of dollars of profit to just be able to turn off the bullshit they're forcing on us.

Windows sucks now? Like there was a time it didn't?

Its funny that windows users are asking for the most basic shit like searching their own computer and Microsoft is like nah im going to give you bing and ads

Gotta love how they have more than 70% of the market, yet they still need to see line go up, because otherwise they might actually have to improve the product 🫨

Shit headline. The correct one is "Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows sucks 'now'."