Bogdan's Blog – From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
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Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.

This post is more detailed than most that I’ve seen on the topic, so I thought others would find it interesting. I am not the author.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    19·
    1 month ago

    I’d rather put in the effort for an OS that knows what consent is and respects me as a user.

    This is the primary reason why I prefer to use Linux. With most FOSS projects, it’s clear that the user is respected, and that’s the way it should be.

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    That was a pretty good read. I liked the poem at the end :D

    Satya came down from his cloud in the sky,

    With Copilot dreams and a gleam in his eye,

    He sprinkled AI on each app, every field,

    Till users cried “Fuck!”, and the slop was revealed.

  • undu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Actually, scratch that, I think it really started with the non-consensual updates:

    At first I ignored it, and carried on as normal. Sure, I’d get mad from time to time and I’d complain.

    But hey, nothing beats the convenience of being able to have all of your applications in one place

    It really started there for me as well, and where it ended: Windows 10 was hellbent on making me use newer, broken GPU drivers. So it was better to lose the ability to play some games rather than all of them. And I also was able to get all the updates from one place :)

    pd: at the time this happened Microsoft still hadn’t released the tool to allow to rollback drivers.