Yeah, I guess Ubuntu has gotten kind of bloaty (I have not installed a ubuntu desktop in years) but Windows.. yeah, its been enshitified for a very, very, long time.
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>I never install Windows 11 in online mode, particularly because I do not like how the operating system auto-installs outdated drivers that I have to update afterwards. However, the other day I was reinstalling Windows 11 on my backup laptop and felt like not going the extra mile with oobe\bypassnro and finding all the necessary drivers on HP's website. "Let's do things your way, Microsoft," I said, and connected to Wi-Fi during the initial setup. What followed next was one massive frustration, and not because of the drivers.
Do you remember when using a computer, especially Windows, felt fun? It might be just me in "man yells at cloud" mode or overdosing on Windows 7 nostalgia (I will rant quite a bit), but I remember how exciting it felt to go through the initial setup in Windows Vista, 7, heck, even Windows 8/8.1. These philosophical ponderings gave an idea to compare the initial setup experience of all the operating systems that Microsoft released over the last two decades, and see if things that had been added over the years are actually useful stuff or just bloat and ads (they are).
Yeah, I guess Ubuntu has gotten kind of bloaty (I have not installed a ubuntu desktop in years) but Windows.. yeah, its been enshitified for a very, very, long time.
Archive: https://archive.today/TMgY4
From the post:
>>I never install Windows 11 in online mode, particularly because I do not like how the operating system auto-installs outdated drivers that I have to update afterwards. However, the other day I was reinstalling Windows 11 on my backup laptop and felt like not going the extra mile with oobe\bypassnro and finding all the necessary drivers on HP's website. "Let's do things your way, Microsoft," I said, and connected to Wi-Fi during the initial setup. What followed next was one massive frustration, and not because of the drivers.
Do you remember when using a computer, especially Windows, felt fun? It might be just me in "man yells at cloud" mode or overdosing on Windows 7 nostalgia (I will rant quite a bit), but I remember how exciting it felt to go through the initial setup in Windows Vista, 7, heck, even Windows 8/8.1. These philosophical ponderings gave an idea to compare the initial setup experience of all the operating systems that Microsoft released over the last two decades, and see if things that had been added over the years are actually useful stuff or just bloat and ads (they are).
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