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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Change is a big part of it certainly but the fact that Windows is coming dangerously close to only functioning online to serve you as many ads as possible and to extract more and more of your personal data to sell all the while owning a once not for profit AI company gives such megacorp vibes.

I'm really not going to be happy about being forced to switch because a high end pc built years ago is suddenly "outdated".

By no means is it Ultra 4K HD compatible but it can still run anything AAA just fine. There's no excuse for what Microsoft is doing in my eyes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Agree with all of those points, I just don't love the reductive notion that every change is a bad change and nothing's been for the better. In several ways it's a better OS - but as you say, they are also getting more contemptuous of the end user with things like privacy, anticompetitivity, and ads.