Windows 11 fucking sucks, a rant
Windows 11 is legitimately horrible, outdated pile of shit adware that feels like it's built on a house of cards a speck of dust could collapse. I don't get how anybody can still use Windows as their main operating system, unless they either a) game, b) need some stupid fucking esoteric application from 2002, or c) have no idea how to use anything else. Windows was never necessarily a great product, but Windows 11 is the same exact fucking thing as Windows 10 except with an incredibly lazily tacked on new UI and 100x more advertising.
It's the ads that fucking get me. It's not their computer, yet Microsoft still feels the need to constantly advertise in every single one of their shitty apps that are basically nothing but chromium wrappers at this point. Checking the weather in your city? Well, thanks to Windows 11, there's an app for that – and that app just so happens to be PLASTERED in banner ads that came straight outta 2005! If you open up Edge on Microsoft's insistence, you get taken to a web portal that reminds you of your shitty 85 year old racist ass grandma's facebook page!! And people fall for this shit because they don't care and they don't know better!!! There was a generation of maybe 10-20 years of kids who were taught how to use computers but now we're creating an entirely new generation who don't fucking know shit and it's our fault because we're managing to fall for this shit too!!!
Windows 10 was able to hide its flaws because at least its UI elements managed to blend in and with some tweaks it could be usable, but on an internal level 11 is so incredibly outdated that Microsoft can't for the life of them mask it anymore. They'll never be able to pull off a full UI overhaul for as long as they have to include every shitty little 1994 feature 6 people in some dinky little office in Billings, Montana use twice a year. Windows in 20 years will be the exact same fucking pile of shit it is now, built on an even older infrastructure that will be even more broken and adridden. But you can game on it!!!!!!!!!!! Windows 11 is unstable as fuck and annoying and adware and spyware, but you can play games on it and also saying anything bad about it means you're an idiot who has no idea how to work with technology whatsoever.
I don't even use any Linux distro right now as my main OS, but at this point I'd rather main fucking arch than deal with 11. The underlying OS is stable, and best of all it's free and open source and you won't be advertised to unless you use Ubuntu or something. Using a good Linux distro feels like using a legitimate computer operating system. The problem with Linux as a desktop OS for me is that a lot of the time, in my experience, I've just had to deal with fucking around with the command line rather than doing the shit I want to do, and realistically 99% of people will not want to deal with that.
Including me. I'm a horrible Apple user. After being subjected to Windows 11 for almost a year I finally just gave up. I tried out fedora but it just wasn't for me, then I just said fuck it and bought a M2 MacBook Air that I use docked with a nice desktop setup. I use macOS daily and OH NO that means I'm a horrible sheep apple user who is fucking stupid, has no idea about anything and must be computer illiterate. Apple has flaws as a company and that's obvious and macOS isn't perfect, yet it's the closest thing to having an OS that just fucking does what I want it to do and doesn't annoy me and that feels legitimately stable and easy to use. I just hope that doesn't go away one day with how fucking enshittified basically every aspect of all software is becoming nowadays.
This server runs on linux though. As it should.