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Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by k32 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:12PM (#25425257)
Sluggish UI, dark patterns, OS rebooting when it feels like it, OS waking up during the night for some shenanigans, surveillance, nagging, ads... I don't know how people can have so little self-respect to use windows. Feels like living in a rental apartment with a creep landlord, while with linux you own the house.
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Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by podiki on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:56PM (#25426125)
Yeah, that's a good analogy! And it captures how you have that freedom, but also the onus is on you to take care of things :-) Of course, that's part of the fun of both.
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Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by yummypaint on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:23PM (#25425355)
I'm definitely using that metaphor from now on. What a perfect encapsulation of the issues for non-technical people.
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