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Re:Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024 by jacquesm on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:59PM (#38005487)
It's just what you're used to. I wouldn't be able to get through my day on a windows box, I'd be so frustrated.

A lot of the apps that I love don't exist on windows. Unix vs windows is like a very large and well stocked toolbox versus a set of nail clippers and a bent hairpin.

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Re:Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024 by runjake on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:24PM (#38005849)
I agree. I did hold out for a year on modern Linux desktop, but I think the relative elegance of macOS has ruined me, I think.

At some point in the next year or two, I plan to re-dogfood Linux desktop with i3 or Sway, as I effectively work in a tiled arrangement and it's far more stable than GNOME.

I don't really use Windows, but when I do, I'm pretty much in a web browser or WSL. I don't have much interest in the rest of it anymore, especially with the ruination Microsoft is committing.

While I've done a lot of Windows programming and PowerShell and whatnot, I'm a UNIX native, I'm old, and I'm sticking with some variant of it until EOL.

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