https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6zViY3sbo&t=1s
I saw this pop up and I found it pretty interesting, it looks like Microsoft is making more DRM moves on Windows generally and like it or not they're going to force everyone to upgrade to Windows 11. I went through the pain of learning the bypasses early on because I knew this was going to happen but it looks like they really are going out of their way to shut down local account setups.
This is important to bring up, oh I wish, I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro. The microsoft market share is ripe for the taking with every dick move that they attempt.
I would have jumped ship ages ago but the problem is the ease of use when it comes to windows the beauty of the simple double click and GUI is not to be underestimated. It's going to be a lot like anything that big tech does now it seems and people are going to be pushed more and more towards open source options because of big tech stuff simply becoming unusable crap due to the types of people that are being hired en masse at these companies.
I guess I should potentially look into Linux again and at least research my options but I don't know if in 2024 things have gotten any better beyond the god awful endless terminal nonsense that reminds me of a worse version of DOS. Please autists, please make a normie distros for Linux that let's me do gaming easily because I want to do stuff like play Morrowind and other old windows based games.
My next PC will be linux. It's in a state where competent laymen can figure it out, now. Microshit can burn - 10 was already bad enough, lobotomizing it's spyware takes more effort than learning how to work linux will.
Yep, it seems we've finally reached that point now.
I feel it was pretty much there in 2010, but it's gone backwards since.
I remember Gnome back then would just work. Other than some sound issues (it's always sound issues) I could get programs to do pretty much anything and the use interface had at least as much control as Windows.
Today, it feels like they've deprecated all the useful GUI interfaces. I used to have a couple of programs that could handle mounting ISOs as drives (great if you're, say, running an old PC game from an image of the disk). Now I can, technically and with much research, do so with the command line, but there's no good GUI interface to do this. I feel the settings and a lot of the utilities are same way. The Start menu is completely fucked and impossible to edit, how they failed to copy the Windows "each menu item is a folder with shortcuts" is beyond me. Software Center should allow you one click install any program you could need, but it's slow, can't search for beans, and often breaks.