2019-10-27 - Windows 10, what the heck?!
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I'm a Linux user for a pretty long time already, and haven't
touched Windows as a consumer since XP. While in my coorporate
environment, i've seen a number of Windows versions pass by, they
don't bother me so much, and seem to do the job fine.
But recently, for a small experiment at work, i needed a standalone
consumer laptop. This thing was preloaded with a non-enterprise
Windows 10 Pro. And i was surprised how much it sucked!
And here i am not talking about the OS itself, or how the GUI looks
(although the tiles are annoying). I am talking about all the
unwanted behaviour of Windows 10.
One thing which annoyed me is how Cortana is pushed in your face at
every moment. I don't want it, leave me alone. Why can't i disable
that during installation?
Another thing that bothered me, is that W10 is preconfigured to
share everything automatically. Location, app feedback, every
bloody mouseclick more or less.
But I was shocked even more, when i saw that W10 just starts to
install all kinds of crapware the moment it's connected to the
internet... It starts to install Candy Crush and Farmville and
more games/apps of this category. And it does so without giving any
consent or choice from the user. And the funny thing, is that if
you remove them, they just reinstall more crap after rebooting.
After a while i found some manner to disable this, but I cannot
comprehend how on EARTH this ridiculous behaviour is accepted in
any way by the W10 consumers!?!
I wonder if i somehow missed the news that Windows 10 consumers
collectively went on the streets and burned Windows 10 flags along
with their installation CD's (or printed licence keys). I might
have missed that consumers occupied Microsoft's offices set fire to
them, and held Microsoft's CEO's hostage and demanded for this
insanity to stop. And i apparently missed that all the Windows 10
consumers collectively boycotted Microsoft's products altogether
and went to Mac or Linux or anything else really.
It's weird that we've apparently become so used to this blatant
advertising and companies nagging us to buy shit, that Microsoft
apparently managed get away with this.
I'm happy to have ditched the whole Windows 10 thing on that
consumer laptop, and installed a neat linux distro which doesn't
hate its users like W10 seems to do.
